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THE BIBLE, THE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG 

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Author of BIBLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE; HISTORY OF THE OLD 
TESTAMENT; HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT ; SWEET 
STORIES OF GOD; RUTH, A BIBLE HEROINE; GOD MADE THE 
WORLD; THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS ; THE GOOD SAMARITAN ; 
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An Address to Children. 



Bv John H. Barrows, D.D. 



THE BIBLE THE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG. 



GOD once said : " And thou shalt teach them diligently to thy chil- 
dren." The whole Bible, Old Testament and New, was meant 
to be taught to the boys and girls all over the world. When I 
was in Egypt, fifteen years ago, I lay one beautiful moonlight night on 
the white sand of an island in the river Nile. It was an island away up 
near the equator, and as I lay there I saw beautiful trees with their long, 
leafy branches above me ; I saw green fields reaching out on either side ; 
I heard the old river Nile rippling over the stones in its bed ; and I 
thought of the rich fields of cotton and wheat and sugar-cane and of the 
thousands of palm trees which I had seen along the river, and of all the 
people who had gotten their bread from the waters of the Nile, which, 
covering the sand of the desert, make it fertile and fruitful, and I blessed 
God for the Nile. Where does it come from ? You have learned that 
the Nile springs from the snows of very high mountains away up in 
Abyssinia, and from two immense lakes in the center of Africa, and it 
carries the waters from these mountains and lakes down through Egypt, 
and turns a desert into a garden. 

But there is another river more wonderful than the river of old 
Egypt. It flows down from God out of heaven, and flows over this 
world, and brings with it all that is beautiful and healthful and good. 
The waters of this river are carried off in little canals, and are brought 
into the homes and churches and Sunday-schools ; and wherever they 
po tend to make lives good and happv. Little children love this River 



of God, and dip their cups into it and drink, and there is a voice speak- 
ing in their ears and saying : " Whosoever will, let him take of the water 
of life freely." There are some people who have traveled round the 
world and seen many very interesting lands and strange and curious 
people — white men, red men, black men, copper-colored men, yellow 
men, but they will tell you that they never saw men where the children 
were happy, where the homes were happy, and where people were try- 
ing to do each other good, unless this River of God went there first. 
This beautiful river that is doing so much for all who live on its banks, 
— it is the Bible, the Word of God, which tells us about Himself and 
about ourselves, which speaks to us of a Savior and of the life after 
death. 

Some years ago a black prince in Africa sent a messenger to Queen 
Victoria, a man who was to ask her what was the reason that England 
was so rich and prosperous ; and she sent back to this African savage 
something that told the whole story. What do you suppose it was ? 
Not a rifle, not a sword, not a steam-engine, not a plow, not a sewing- 
machine, but a copy of the Bible. Let me tell you five things about 
this book, and if you know how to spell the word Bible you will find 
them easy to remember — B-I-B-L-E. 

First, then, the Bible is a beautiful book. I do not mean as to its 
shape and color. It may be very lovely or it may be very plain, as it 
looks to your eye. I have seen Bibles that you could buy for a sixpence, 
and I have a New Testament that I bought for a penny. I have seen 
Bibles which were copied with a pen and filled with pictures on which 
men labored for years, and which you couldn't buy for a thousand dollars. 
When I say that the Bible is a beautiful book, I mean that it is full of 
beautiful thoughts and beautiful pictures and beautiful stories that speak 
to our minds. God often talks with children through pictures. You love 
things that speak to you through the eye, like flowers and birds, and 
your dear mother's face. Just think of some of the pictures God has 
given us in this Book. 

I see, with my mind's eye, a garden, large, fair, with great trees and 



beautiful walks, pure, clear streams with lovely flowers, with animals 
playing about, with two trees that were set apart from the rest, one 
called the Tree of Life and the other the Tree of the Knowledge of 
Good and Evil. I see a man in this garden, and animals passing before 
him and hear him giving them names. Now I see a city with twelve 
gates, each gate a pearl. The city has walls made of twelve kinds of 
jewels, and the streets are of pure gold, and there is no temple in the 
city and no sun, but it is very glorious and wonderful. I see a beautiful 
River and a glorious Sea, and a great multitude of shining ones with 
harps in their hands, and I see a throne and One that sits thereon, more 
lovely and beautiful and mighty and glorious than any words can say. 
The little three-year-old boy before he can read, loves to take his 
picture book and see things that are to him very wonderful, and when he 
gets a little older he loves to take a box of paints and a brush and color 
the pictures in some of his books. The first book I ever colored was 
full of Bible pictures. There was the picture of a man on the top of a 
hill with his son laid on a heap of stones. The father's face was sad, 
and the old man was lifting a knife in his hand ; and there was a sheep 
caught in a bush near by ; and there was the figure of an angel in the 
sky. Then there was the picture of a young man lying on the ground, 
with stones under his head for a pillow, and a stairway or ladder reach- 
ing up to the heavens above, with angels going up and down. There 
was the picture of a boy whose father gave him a coat of many colors, 
and how I liked to daub on the red and yellow and blue paint, and I am 
afraid I took a pin and punched out the eyes in the pictures of the 
brothers of this boy — those brothers who, as you remember, cast him 
into a dry well and afterward sold him as a slave. There was a picture 
of a little boy lying in a little boat which was among the tall grasses of 
a river. There was the picture of a great tent in the desert, with altars 
on which fire was burning, and a great pillar of cloud resting down on 
it in the midst of the tent. And then far over in the book was the pic- 
ture of the best Man who ever lived, taking little children in His arms, 
putting His hands on them and blessing them. 



The Bible is a beautiful book for a great many reasons that I can't 
apeak of now. Its beauty is not like that of an apple blossom, which 
soon fades away. It grows more and more lovely as you grow older. 
I like to see a little child reading with happy face from this book which 
tells of God's love ; but it is lovelier still to see the old grandmother, 
who loved the Bible in childhood, putting on her spectacles and reading 
these words of David : " Oh, how I love thy law ! It is my meditation 
all the day. How sweet are thy words to my taste, yea, sweeter than 
honey to my mouth ! " Two of the most beautiful things that we ever 
see are gold and honey — gold, bright shining, and the honey which 
looks like liquid gold, shut up in little boxes of pearl. Now I am going 
to end what I have to say about the Bible as beautiful, by telling you 
what David said of the words of the Lord that are found in this book : 
" More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold ; 
sweeter also than honey and the honey comb." 

But the Bible is not only a beautiful book for children, but it is an 
interesting book. You like to read it and hear it, partly because it tells 
so much about children, boys and girls like you. You read in this book 
about two brothers, one of whom loved God, and the other did net love 
his brother, and slew him because his own deeds were evil and his 
brother's righteous. You read about a little girl who was taken off in 
a certain war, and became a servant for the wife of a great general. 
He was a leper, and this little girl, believing in God and in God's prophet, 
Elisha, told her mistress that the prophet in Israel could heal her master 
of his awful disease. You read the story of a little boy whose mother 
gave him early to the Lord, and who went to live with an old man in a 
great tent, which was God's house, and who heard the voice of the Lord 
calling to him in the night. Did you never hear God's voice speaking 
to your heart, and do you always answer as did this boy in the taber- 
nacle at Shiloh : " Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth " ? 

And in this Book you have read of four boys in the court of the great 
king of Babylon who would not defile themselves with the rich meats 
and the fiery wines, and who formed a boys' temperance society in the 



court of the king, and who rose to high honor and great fame. Above 
all, you read of the perfect Child who was obedient to his earthly father 
and mother, and who did the will of his Heavenly Father, and who grew 
iinto the bravest, noblest, truest, most manly man that ever lived, and who 
died for us all — that Man whose words are, I think, the first words of the 
Bible that you learned by heart. I have heard of a little girl who lived 
where the Bible is not permitted to be read by the children. But she had 
a present of the good Book from her Sunday School teacher. It was 
discovered that she had this book ; it was snatched from her and thrown 
into the fire. She watched it burn, while the tears rolled down her cheeks, 
and turning sadly away, said : "Thank God, there are fourteen chapters 
of the Gospel of John which they can't burn up, for I have committed 
them to memory." 

The Bible interests you because it is full of wonderful things. It tells 
of a wonderful God who doeth marvelous things for His people. It tells 
of the flood which swept away the wicked world ; of the plagues which 
fell on wicked Egypt ; of the march of two millions of people through the 
Red Sea which God divided ; it tells you of the wonderful life of the chil- 
dren of Israel in the desert, with God's hand feeding them with the birds 
and the bread ; it leads you to the foot of a great mountain, on which 
God came down in a chariot of fire, while the thunders roared and the 
trumpet blown by some mighty angel sounded loud and long, and the 
mountain shook and smoked like a great furnace, and all the people trem- 
bled while God gave the law which begins : " I am the Lord that brought 
thee out of Egypt. Thou shalt have no other gods before me." 

This Bible has more wonderful things than you will find anywhere 
else. It tells of great battles, of the sun and moon standing still, of cities 
falling down at the blowing of trumpets ; of fire descending from heaven ; 
it tells of shipwrecks and storms, and cruel kings, and men willing to die 
for the name of Jesus. It tells of God's wonderful love, and how the Son 
of God came from heaven to earth and died Lr us on the Cross and rose 
from the grave. And the best thing, children, about all these Bible won- 
ders, is this, that they are true. A wonderful God doeth wonderful things. 



This is a wonderful world we live in. You children know it and feel it, 
and some older people have got to become much wjger than they now are 
to be as wise as you are. Is not the Bible an interesting - Book ? My 
children will listen longer to the story of the Bi^le than anything else. 
And as you grow older, if you will only keep on studying the Bible, it wu? 
keep its interest till you die. 

Children who live in cities love to ride, in summer, in the parks and 
see the wonderful figures which the gardeners have made with their plants 
and flowers, the stars and stripes, an elephant, the ball-player, a giraffe, 
a sun-dial, a calendar, an obelisk, sphinxes, and so forth. Now, this book 
is a great garden on which God has made figures that will last as long 
as the world lasts. There is Adam, with his face dark and sorrowful be- 
cause he had sinned ; there is Abel, looking up to that heaven which he, 
first of all men, entered ; there is Noah, a preacher of righteousness, who 
preached many years without converting a soul, but kept on believing 
God ; there is Abraham with a staff in his hand ; there is Moses holding 
the wondrous rod and the book of the law ; there is David with his ha r o ; 
there is Paul, going' forth to preach Christ; there is John, looking into 
heaven. The children who have the Bible taught them will find great 
interest in these figures. But the greatest interest in the Bible is this, 
that it is a sign-board pointing us to our Father's house in Heaven. 

Now, I come to the third letter. The B-I-i?-L-E — is not only a 
Beautiful book, and an Interesting book, but it is a Blessed book. That 
is, it makes people happy and good, good and happy. A poor man comes 
from England to Chicago with his wife and three children, expecting to 
get work and to make him a lovely home. But he fails to get work and 
he has to sell many things to get bread for his family. At last he is in 
despair, but a good man comes to his house, learns of his need, gives him 
bread and gets him work ; and that night the Englishman says to his wife, 
" Wasn't he a blessed man to help us at this time ? " But in a few days 
the baby of the house is taken sick and soon dies, and the good man 
comes again and advances money to pay for the funeral of the dear little 
child ; and they say, '• Blessed man ! " again. But that night, when all is 



over, and the baby is laid to sleep in the cemetery, the poor man takes 
down the Bible and reads to his wife of Christ's love to children, and of 
the beautiful world beyond, where there is no more crying and death, and 
the wife sayd, " Oh, isn't that a blessed Book ! " 

Blessed Book. So the mother thinks whose boy has gone off to 
school or to sea. How careful she was to put a copy of the Bible in his 
hands and tO get from him the promise to read it every day. She knows 
perfectly we^ll that no great harm can come to him, if he reads and obeys 
what is written in the Word of God. I know a young lady who was very 
much distressed when in Paris several years ago because her hand-bag, a 
little portmanteau, had been lost. And when, after much hunting, it was 
found, she confessed that what distressed her most of all in the thought 
of losing her hand-bag was this, that it contained the little Bible which 
had been gflven to her when a child and which she had made her daily 
companion ever since. I hope that each of you owns a Bible which, the 
gift of a mother or of some dear friend, is growing more and more blessed 
to you as ybu go forward into your lives. There is much darkness in the 
future. You will have sorrows as well as joys. The clouds will gather. 
The shadows will sometimes descend and you will wonder where you are 
to walk, of what you are to do. But remember what David has said of 
this blessed Book : "Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a guide to mv 
path." 

Now, We come to the fourth letter, B-I-B-Z-E. Beautiful, Interest- 
ing, Blessed, L, Life-giving. This is something better than anything we 
have yet said to you about the Bible. It gives life to those who are dead. 
You have seen a patch of ground early in the spring on which nothing 
was growing. But the rain falls, and the warm sunshine pours down, and 
the seeds iH that soil burst into life and spring up and cover the earth with 
living plants and flowers. And so God's Word brings its dew and sunshine 
on our cold, dead hearts, and the flowers of love, hope, peace and joy spring 
up. The Bible is like bread, like the manna which came to the children of 
Israel in the desert. It feeds our souls. It gives us life. How does it give 
us life ? It teaches us about God and his great love in Jesus, and when we 



come to get from Him the forgiveness of our sins, when we come to know 
God and love God and trust in God, we have life. " This is life eternal," 
said Jesus, " that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ 
whom thou hast senc." Some of you are giving money to send this Book 
to the heathen people. Where this Book goes it gives life like bread sent 
to people who are starving. 

But why do we need the Bible to know about God ? Do iOt tha 
stars and the sun and the earth tell us that there must be a God who made 
all these wonderful things and rules {\em ? Yes, they tell us that God 
is powerful, that He is very great, but they do not tell us that he loves us 
poor sinners. The Egyptians believed in God ; yes, in many gods. 
They were, as we know, a very wise and learned people. And yet this 
people Moses found bowing down and worshiping cats and crocodiles and 
beetles. They did not know the one God who led His people, and who 
said, " Thou shalt have no other gods before me," and who is not only 
holy, but merciful, forgiving our sins. Suppose that you were on an ocean 
steamer way out at sea, and she was sinking into the waves. To what 
or to whom would you pray ? You wouldn't pray to the waves. They 
would not have mercy on you. You wouldn't pray to the stars. They 
wouldn't have mercy on you. You would pray to the God who is revealed 
in this Book, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has said 
that nothing can take us from His love, neither life nor death, land nor 
ocean, nothing can separate us from His love. 

Children, this Book tells us one thing which all need to learn, and 
that is, how we may gain life eternal, how we may escape from death. 
This Book is the story of God's love. It is the story of Jesus, our Savior. 
He that has Christ in his heart has life. " I am the resurrection and the 
life," said Jesus; "I am the way, the truth and the life." If this Book 
does not lead you to Christ, you have failed to get from it what God gave 
it for. David said of the Bible: "The law of the Lord is perfect, con- 
verting the soui." 

We come now to the fifth letter, B-I-B-L-iT — Everlasting. The 
Bible is Beautiful, Interesting, Blessed, Life-giving, and Everlasting. It 



is something that does not wear our. " The word of the Lord endureth 
forever." Children's clothes wear out, as you well know. Your play- 
things break ; your shoes don't last ; your books get torn ; these bodies 
die ; but the Bible lasts. It was good in David's time. It was good 
when Christ was a child, and He read it. It was good in Paul's time, and 
he added to it. It was good when Martin Luther translated it into the 
German language, and William Tyndale translated it into English. It 
lasts the way an oak tree lasts, that grows bigger and bigger and sends 
out little shoots that grow into other oaks and make a mighty forest. 
This Bible is now speaking to men in nearly three hundred different lan- 
guages. It is going to be the one Book of the world. A hundred years 
ago a famous infidel in France, named Voltaire, foolishly published his 
opinion that the religion of the Bible would soon die out, but to-day men 
are using Voltaire's printing-press in Geneva to publish this grand old 
Book. Here is something, children, that is going to last. You can stand 
on it safely. God is in it When the little girl whose father was an infi- 
del and whose mother was a Christian was dying, and she said to her 
father, " Shall I hold to your principles, father, or shall I turn now to my 
mother's God ? " the father said : " Believe in your mother's God." 

Just before beginning a great battle on the sea, you remember that 
Admiral Nelson hung out a flag with these words for all to see : " England 
expects every man to do his duty." And so our great General, the Cap- 
tain of our salvation, expects that every boy trained up in a Christian 
church will do his duty. He expects that you will take this Beautiful, 
Interesting, Blessed, Life-giving and Eternal book and make it your guide, 
your compass, your rudder, your chart on the great ocean of life. He 
expects that you will be true men and women, honest, pure, obedient to 
God, loving your country and all the world. He expects that you will 
be faithful to duty, that you will be clean in body and in lips and mouth 
and eyes and heart. He expects to meet you and welcome you all in 
glory above. 

A passenger on one of our ocean steamers found an old friend in the 
captain. They talked about one of their old classmates in school. Said 



the passenger : " I could never understand why Will did not succeed. 
He left college well educated, full of life and health, well-to-do. He gave 
up the ministry which he had intended to enter, having fallen in with some 
free-thinking fellows. He studied law, but gave that up and went to 
farming. He became a skeptic. He left his wife and farming and became 
a gold-seeker in California. He left this and went to Idaho. He had lost 
everything, and supported himself by odd jobs. I knew him there. He 
was not a drunkard or a gambler, but he had never succeeded. He tried 
something new several times a year. He was now almost mad in his op- 
position to the religion of the Bible. Soon he died, bitterly rebelling 
against God. It is wonderful that such a man should ever have come to 
such an end." 

The captain was silent for a while, but at last said : " Old sailors 
have a superstition that there are phantom ships (that is, ghosts of ships) 
which cross the sea. I saw a vessel once that showed me how this idea 
may have sprung up. It was a full-rigged bark, driving under full sail. 
There was no one on board. Some disease may have broken out, and 
all the sailors had left. I could not capture her, though I tried. Several 
months later I passed her again. Her topmast was gone ; her sails were 
in rags ; the wind drove her where it would. A year later she came in 
sight one stormy winter night. She was a shattered hulk and went down 
at last in the darkness and storm. She was a good ship at first, but," 
added the captain, " she had lost her rudder." Boys and girls, young 
men and women, I pray you, on this voyage of life, not to lose the ruddef 
by which, in the storm, you may hold the ship true to the harbor- 



NEW TESTAMENT. 



CHAPTER I. 
The Birth of Christ, ....... 

CHAPTER II. 
The Star in the East, ....... 

CHAPTER III. 
The Boy-hood of Je-sus, . .... 

CHAPTER IV. 
Je-sus and John the Bap-tist, ..... 

CHAPTER V. 

The Wo-man at the Well. — Je-sus by the Sea, 

CHAPTER VI. 

Je-sus Heals the Sick, and does Good Work on the Day 
of Rest, . . . . ■ . . 

CHAPTER VII. 

The Ser-mon on the Mount, . • 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Good Words and Good Works, ..... 

CHAPTER IX. 
Je-sus at the Sea-shore, ...... 

CHAPTER X. 
Je-sus Brings the Dead to Life. — Feeds Five Thou-sand, 



Contents. 

CHAPTER XI. 
Je-sus Heals the Sick. — His Form Changed on the Mount, 

CHAPTER XII. 
The Good Sa-mar-i-tan. — Mar-tha and Mary. — The Man 
Born Blind, . . . , 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Je-sus the Good Shep-herd. — Laz-a-rus Brought to Life. — - 
The Feast and those who were bid to it, 

CHAPTER XIV. 
The Prod-i-gal Son. — The Phar-i-see and the Pub-li-can. — 
Babes Brought to Je-sus. — Zac-cheus Climbs a Tree, 

CHAPTER XV. 
The Feast of the Pass-over. — The Sup-per at Beth-a-ny, 

CHAPTER XVI. 

Par-a-bles of our Lord, . . 

CHAPTER XVII. 
The Lord's Sup-per. — Je-sus in Geth-sem-a-ne. — The Ju-das 
Kiss. — Pe-ter De-nies Je-sus, . . . . 

CHAPTER XVIII. 
Christ Be-fore Pi-late. — Christ on the Cross, 

CHAPTER XIX. 

Je-sus Leaves the Grave. — Ap-pears to Ma-ry. — Ste-phen 
Stoned. — Paul's Life, Ship-wreck and Death, 

CHAPTER XX. 
What John saw while on the Isle of Pat-mos. — The Great 
White Throne. — The Land of Light, 



History of the New Testament 



CHAPTER I. 

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. 

The time was near for Je-sus to come on the 
earth. God had told Ad-am and Eve of one who 
would save them from their sins. Mo-ses, and all the 
seers and wise men, spoke of him who was to give 
men new hearts, and help them to lead new lives. 

In the days of He-rod, king of Ju-dah, there was 
a priest named Zach-a-ri-as. His wife's name was 
E-liz-a-beth. They were both old, and had led pure 
lives, and sought to keep God's laws. But they had 
no child. 

One day when the priest was in the house of 
God by one of the al-tars, an an-gel came and stood 
near him. And when the priest saw him he shook 
with fear. 

But the an-gel said : Fear not, Zach-a-ri-as, for 
God will give thee and thy wife a son, and thou 
shalt call his name John. 

He shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and 
shall not drink wine nor strong drink, and shall turn 
the hearts of men to the Lord their God, 



History of the New Testament. 

Then Zach-a-ri-as said to the an-gel, But how 
shall I know that these things will be ? 

And the an-gel said to him, I am the an-gel 
Ga-bri-el, who stands near to God, and he has sent 
me to tell thee this good news. And for thy lack of 
faith thou shalt be dumb, and speak not a word till 
the day that these things come to pass. 

Now those who were in the courts of God's house 
thought it strange that Zach-a-ri-as should stay so 
long at the al-tar where he burnt the in-cense. 

And when he came out he could not speak to 
them, but made them know by signs that he had 
seen a strange sight. 

Six months from this time God sent the an-gel 
Ga-bri-el to the town of Naz-a-reth, to a young wo- 
man there whose name was Ma-ry. She was one of 
the heirs of King Da-vid. 

When Ma-ry saw the an-gel she was in great 
fear, for she knew not why he had come. And the 
an-gel said: Fear not, Ma-ry, for God has blessed 
thee. Thou shalt have a son, and shalt call his 
name Je-sus. He shall be great, and shall be called 
the Son of God. And God will make him a king, 
and to his reign there shall be no end. 

Ma-ry said: How can this be? 

The an-gel told her that what might seem hard 
for her was not hard for God, who could do all 




THE AN-NUN-CIA-TION. 



History of the New Testament. 

things. He had told E-liz-a-beth that she should 
have a son, and he had now sent word to Ma-ry 
that she should have a son ; and what he had said 
he would do. 

Then Ma-ry said, Let the Lord's will be done. 
And the an-gel left her. 

Ma-ry made haste and went to the land of Ju- 
dah, and to the house of E-liz-a-beth and Zach-a- 
ri-as, where she spent three months. Then she came 
back to her own home. Jo-seph was the name of 
Ma-ry's hus-band ; and he was a Jew, of King Da- 
vid's line. They were both poor, and Jo-seph had 
to work hard at his trade. He was a car-pen-ter. 

God gave Zach-a-ri-as and E-liz-a-beth the son 
that he said they should have. And when the child 
was eight days old, the friends and kins-folk came 
to see it and to give it a name. Most of them said, 
Call him Zach-a-ri-as. 

But the child's mo-ther said, Not so. He shall 
be called John. 

And they said, There is none of thy kin-dred 
that is called by this name. 

And they made signs to the fa-ther that he 
should let them know by what name the child should 
be called. 

And the fa-ther sat down and wrote: His name 
is John. And they all thought this strange, as he 



The Birth of Christ. 

had not told them of the an-gel who spoke to him in 
the house of God. 

As soon as Zach-a-ri-as wrote these words his 
speech came back to him, and he gave praise and 
thanks to God. And all the folks in that part of the 
land heard of these things, and they said, What 
sort of a child shall this be? And the boy grew 
tall and strong, and the Lord blest him, and he went 
out and dwelt in the woods and waste lands till he 
was a man, and it was time for him to preach to the 
Jews and to tell them of Je-sus. 

Now the king of Rome was called a Ce-sar, 
in the speech of that land, and the Jews had to do 
just as he said, for they were his slaves. And he 
made a law that the names of all the Jews should 
be put down in a book, that it might be known what 
tribe they came from, and what they were worth. 
Then, too, it would not be a hard task to count them 
when the Ce-sar wished to know how large a force 
of them was in this land he had fought for and won. 

And each Jew was to go to that part of the land 
where his fore-fa-thers dwelt, and have his name put 
down in the book at that place. 

So, as Jo-seph and his wife were of the house of 
Da-vid, they both set out for the town of Beth-le- 
hem, where Da-vid used to feed his sheep. The 
way was long, and when they came to the town they 



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found a great crowd of folks there. There was no 
room for Jo-seph and Ma-ry at the inn, and they 
knew no one at whose house they could stay. 

As they went from place to place in search of a 
room, they came to a shed in which was a great 
trough or man-ger full of hay, where the poor folks 
who came to town fed the beasts on which they rode. 

So Jo-seph and Ma-ry made their home in this 
shed while they had to wait to have their names put 
down. And while they were there God gave to 
Ma-ry the son that he said she should have. 

And as she had no fine soft clothes to wrap the 
babe in, she took bands of cloth and put round him, 
and laid him on the straw in the man-ger. 

In those days rich men kept large flocks of sheep 
and goats, and had men watch them at night for 
fear that wild beasts would seize and kill them. The 
men who fed and took care of the sheep were called 
shep-herds. 

One night, as some shep-herds were on the hills 
where they kept watch of their flocks, the an-gel 
of the Lord came down to them. And a bright 
light shone round them so that they were in great fear. 

And the an-gel said to them, Fear not, for I 
bring you good news which shall give joy to all the 
land. For Christ, the Lord, is born for you this 
day, in the town of Beth-le-hem, and he will save 




THE NA-TIV-I-TY. 



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you from your sins. And this is the way ye shall 
know him : Ye shall find the babe wrapped in bands 
of cloth and laid in a man-ger. 

When the an-gel had said this, there came, like 
a flash of light, a great host of an-gels who gave 
praise to God, and sang, Glo-ry be to God on high, 
and on earth, peace and good-will to men. 

When the an-gels had left them the shep-herds 
said, Let us go at once to Beth-le-hem and see 
these things of which the an-gel has told us. 

And they came with haste, and found Ma-ry and 
Jo-seph, and the babe that lay in the man-ger where 
the ox and ass used to feed. And when they had 
seen the child, they went out and told what the an- 
gel had said to them. And those who heard were 
filled with awe, for it was the first time that such a 
thing had been done in the world. And the strange 
news spread fast. 

Ma-ry told no one of the talk she had had with 
the an-gel, but thought much of these things, and 
took the best of care of the new-born babe. It did 
not seem as if it could be her own child. 

When the babe was eight days old, its fa-ther and 
mo-ther gave it the name of Je-sus, as the an-gel had 
bid them. And they gave him to the Lord ; that is, 
they vowed to the priest that they would bring up 
the child to serve God and to lead a good life. For 



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though he was the son of God he was sent on earth 
to teach men what they ought to do. 

Now there was a 
man in Je-ru-sa-lem 
whose name was Sim- 
e-on. He was a good 
man, and did what 
was right, and for 
years he had been on 
the watch for one of 
whom the seers had 
told, and who was to 
save men from their 
sins. 

And it was made 
known to Sim-e-on 
in a dream that he 
should not die till 
he had seen this 
King of kings and 
Lord of lords. 

Sim-e-on was a 
priest in the house of 
God, and when Jo- 
seph and Ma-ry brought in the child Je-sus, he took 
it up in his arms and blest God, and said : Now, 
Lord, thy words have come true, and I can die in 




SIM-E-ON IN THE TEM-PLE. 



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peace, for I have seen him who is to be the light of 
the world, and to save men from their sins! 

Jo-seph and Ma-ry knew not what to make of 
this strange speech. And the priest blest them, and 
gave the child back to his mo-ther, and told her of 
some of the great things he would do when he grew 
up to be a man. 

And there was one An-na, who kept all the fasts, 
and served God night and day. She was four-score 
and four years old, and could fore-tell what was to 
take place, and her fame was great. And she came 
in-to the house of God while Sim-e-on yet spoke, and 
gave thanks to the Lord, and told of him who was 
to come to save the Jews, and to give them back 
their rights. 

Then Ma-ry and Jo-seph went back to their own 
home in Naz-a-reth. And the child grew, and was 
strong, and wise, and God blest him from day to day. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE STAR IN THE EAST. 



In these days God spoke to men by strange 
signs, and wise ones were all the time on the watch 
for them. They had read in their old books of a 



The Star in the East. 



star that was to shine with a bright light, and each 

night they would raise their eyes to the sky, in hopes 

that they might see this sign that would bring hope 

and joy to the whole race of Jews. But years and 

years had gone by, and 

the Jews had no land of 

their own, and were as 

slaves to the Ce-sar of 

Rome. And He-rod, 

their king, was most 

harsh to them, for he 

had skill in the use of 

a sword, but not in the 

use of kind words, or 

good deeds. 

One night as a wise 
man lay on the roof of 
his house, with his gaze 
fixed on the great broad 
sky, he gave a start and 
cry of joy, for there 
shone a new star of such 
size that all the rest of 
the stars grew dim and small. And it was as if the 
sun had burst through a dark cloud, and brought 
the dawn some hours too soon, for the whole East 
was full of light from the long rays of this new star. 

Y. F. B.— 17 




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And the star seemed to move, and its rays to 
point all one way. And the wise men who saw it 
knew that the light had come for which they had 
looked and prayed so long, and they set out at once 
with the star to guide them, and they took rich gifts 
with them. Each night it shone in the sky, and led 
them on and on till they came to Je-ru-sa-lem. And 
they said to those they met there, Where is he that 
is born to be King of the Jews? for we have seen 
his star in the east, and have come to kneel down at 
his feet. 

When He-rod heard of these things, and that 
they spoke of Je-sus as King, he was in great fear 
lest he should lose his throne. So he sent for his 
chief priests and scribes that they might tell him 
where Christ should be born. And they read from 
their old books that it had been fore-told that he 
should be born in Beth-le-hem. 

Then He-rod sent for the wise men, and told 
them to go to Beth-le-hem, and search for the young 
child. And when ye find him, said he, bring me 
back word that I too may fall down at his feet and 
give him praise. 

But this he did not mean to do, for his plan was 
to put the child to death just as soon as he could 
find out where it was. 

When the king had ceased to speak, the wise 



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men from the east left Je-ru-sa-lem, and went on 
their way to Beth-le-hem. And the star led them 
on and on, and was like the face of a friend. And 
a small, still voice seemed to say to them: — Come! 
— Come! — Come! And it drew them so that they 
would have gone to the ends of the earth. When 
troops are on the march, and through their ranks 
goes the cry of Halt! then each foot must stand 
still, and not a man moves from his place. 

And when the wise men came to Beth-le-hem, 
lo, the star that had led them stood still in the sky, 
right o'er the place where the young child was. 
And when they went in-to the house they saw the 
young child, with Ma-ry, his mo-ther, and they fell 
on their knees and bowed down to him as if he had 
been a king. And they brought him gifts of great 
worth, and gold and myrrh and rich gums and 
spice that can be found only in those lands in the 
far East. 

And God spoke to them in a dream, and told 
them not to go back to He-rod, so they went home 
not by the same road they had come. 

When He-rod found that the wise men had not 
done as he bade them, he was in a great rage, and 
sent men to Beth-le-hem, and slew all the chil-dren 
there who were two years old or less, for then he 
was sure that Je-sus would be slain. 



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But ere He-rod's men came, God spoke to Jo- 
seph in a dream, and said, Rise, and take thy wife 
and thy son, and flee into E-gypt, and stay there till 

I bring thee word ; 
for He-rod will seek 
the young child to 
kill him. 

So Jo-seph did as 
the Lord told him, 
and took his wife and 
child out of Beth-le- 
hem by night, and 
went to dwell in the 
Land of E-gypt. 

But when He-rod 
was dead, God spoke 
to Jo-seph in a dream, 
and told him to take 
his wife and son and 
go back to the land 
of Is-ra-el, for the 
man was dead who 
sought to kill the young child. And Jo-seph did 
as the an-gel told him, and he and his wife and 
child came and dwelt in Naz-a-reth. 




THE FLIGHT IN-TO E-GYPT. 



CHAPTER III. 

THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS. 

It was in the first month of the year that God 
brought the Jews out of E-gypt and led them through 
the Red Sea. 

And he made it a law that in the first month of 
each year they should all meet at one place, and 
bring the young lambs and calves and the first fruits 
of the field and give thanks to God in the way they 
had been taught. And this they were to do all the 
days of their life. And this feast, which was to last 
not quite two months, was known as the Feast of the 
Weeks. There were days they were to fast, and 
days they were to feast, and they were to call to 
mind that they were once slaves, and that God had 
set them free, and with glad hearts praise and bless 
his great name. 

The place where the Jews now met was at Je-ru- 
sa-lem, and Je-sus was twelve years old when he 
went up for the first time, with Jo-seph and Ma-ry, 
to keep the Feast of the Weeks. 

There was a great crowd there, and friends to 
meet and talk with, and it must have been a hard 



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task to keep track of the young folks, who found so 
much to see and to hear that was new and strange. 

When the days of the feast were at an end, Jo- 
seph and Ma-rysetout for their home in Naz-a-reth. 

They had gone out with a band of friends and 



NAZ-A-RETH. 



folks from the same town, and were to come back in 
the same way. It was not safe for them to go by 
them-selves, for there were waste lands to cross where 
bands of thieves lay in wait for a chance to rob and 
to kill those who came their way. 

Some rode on mules, some on horse-back, and 



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some had to walk all the way. Je-sus was not with 
Jo-seph and Ma-ry, but they thought he must be 
with some of the friends or kins-folk. But when at 
the end of a day's ride he came not near them, they 




JE-SUS AT THE AGE OF TWELVE AMONG THE DOC-TORS IN THE TEM-PLE. 

sought for him in the groups of friends and kins- 
folk, where there were lads of his own age. 

And when they found him not, they went back 
to Je-ru-sa-lem, and sought for him with hearts full 
of grief, for they knew not what harm might have 
come to him. 



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For three days they went from house to house, 
and through the lanes and streets, but could see no 
signs of the boy they had lost. 

At the end of that time they went in-to the 
house of God, it may have been to pray that their 
child might be found, and there a strange sight met 
their gaze. 

Je-sus sat in the midst of the wise men, whose 
place it was to teach and to preach to those who 
came up to the feasts, and the old men bent their 
heads to hear what the young lad had to say. For 
it was the first time they had met with one so young 
in years who was so wise in speech, and they felt 
in their hearts that he must have been taught 
of God. 

When Jo-seph and Ma-ry saw Je-sus they were 
struck dumb, and could do naught but stare, as if it 
was a scene in a dream. Then Ma-ry said, My 
son, why didst thou vex us thus? we have sought for 
thee with sad hearts. 

Je-sus said, Why did ye look for me? Do ye 
not know that I must do the work that my fa-ther 
has set me to do? 

Jo-seph and Ma-ry did not know what he meant 
by these words, or that God had sent Je-sus on earth 
to teach men how to read the word of God a-right, 
and how to save their souls from death. 



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Je-sus went back to Naz-a-reth with Jo-seph and 
Ma-ry, and was a good son to them. And he grew 
wise and tall, and was blest of God, and won the 
hearts of all who were near him, for they saw in 
him much to love. 

It was not known that he was the Son of God, 
and he made friends by his own sweet ways, for he 
was a poor boy. 

Naught was heard or known of Je-sus for some 
years, and we are led to think that he was taught 
how to use the axe, and saw, and plane, and to work 
at the same trade his fa-ther did. This gave him a 
chance to see how folks lived, and to use his eyes 
and ears as he went from house to house, so that 
when he went forth to teach he could tell them of 
their sins, and show them how vile they were. 

And this part of the life of Je-sus — of which not a 
word is told in the New Test-a-ment — is to teach us 
to stay in the place where God has put us, and to do 
our work there in the best way we know how. 

Je-sus was at school then, just as boys and girls 
in these days go to school, and strive to grow wise 
and to fit them-selves for the work they are to do in 
the world. And though he was to be a king he did 
not put on airs, or sit and fold his hands and bid 
those that were near wait on him and be at his beck 
and call No! he was born and brought up with 



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poor folks, to teach us that Je-sus is more at home 
with the poor than he is with the rich ; and to be 
Christ-like we must seek to please God, to do his 
will, to put down pride, and keep sin out of our 
hearts. 



CHAPTER IV. 

JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST. 

You have been told that John went out in-to the 
woods and waste lands when quite a young man. 
He fed on lo-custs and wild hon-ey, and his clothes 
were made of the skin of the cam-el, with the long 
rough hair on the out-side. 

The time had now come for him to go out in the 
world to tell of Je-sus, and to bid men give up their 
sins and walk in the right path. 

And he went to a place near the Jor-dan and 
crowds came there to hear him. And he told them 
that he had been sent to warn them to flee from the 
wrath to come. He said they must not think they 
would be saved be-cause they were sons or heirs of 
good men who had served God and died in the faith. 
He told them that each one was to be like a tree, 
and to stand in his place and bring forth fruit, and 
serve God in the best way that he could. And 



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each tree, said John, which brings not forth good 
fruit is cut down and cast in-to the fire. He told 
them they must be good and kind to each oth-er, and 
must give food and clothes to those who were in need 
of such things. They must not tell lies, nor steal, nor 
be vain and proud, but they must show by the way 
they lived that they loved God and were glad to do 
his will. 

And when those who heard him felt a great hate 
for sin, and a strong wish to lead good lives, and 
to be saved from the wrath of God, they spoke to 
John and he led them down to the Jor-dan and they 
were bap-tiz-ed in the stream. 

Now wa-ter will wash the stains from our clothes, 
and cleanse our skin, but it will not wash our sins 
away. To do this we must have Christ in our hearts. 
Some of those who heard John talk thought that he 
might be the Christ who was to come, and of whom 
the proph-ets had fore-told since the days of Mos-es. 
Some were quite sure of it ; but oth-ers shook their 
heads, for they had made up their minds that he who 
was to come and rule over them would be dressed like 
a king, and not in such plain clothes as John wore. 

John heard their words, or guessed their thoughts, 
and he said to these Jews, I indeed bap-tize you with 
wa-ter, but he who is to come af-ter me, and who is 
great-er than I, will bap-tize you with fire. 



Jesus and John the Baptist. 

That meant that Je-sus would be in their hearts 
like a fire, to burn up all that was bad, as they burnt 
the chaff that was blown loose from the wheat. 

Then Je-sus came from his home in Naz-a-reth 
to have John bap-tize him in Jor-dan's stream. But 
John would not. He said there was more need that 
Je-sus should bap-tize him. He felt that there was 
need to have his own sins washed a-way, but Je-sus 
had no sins. So why dost thou come to me? said John. 

Je-sus had come on the earth as a man to do 
God's will, and to teach man-kind how to walk in 
the right path and keep their hearts free from sin. 
And he told John, that all these things would be 
made plain to him some day, and it was right that 
he should bap-tize him. 

So John went with Je-sus in-to the wa-ter, and 
he bap-tized Jesus in the wa-ter. And Je-sus was 
pray-ing to his Fa-ther in heav-en. 

And as Je-sus went up out of the wa-ter, lo, 
there came a great light in the sky, that took the 
form of a dove, and it came down and seemed to 
rest on him. And God's voice spoke out of the sky, 
and said: This is my dear Son, with whom I am 
well pleased. 

Then Je-sus went out in-to the waste lands, and 
was there with no one near him for more than a 
month. In all that time he ate no food, but spent 



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the hours in talks with God. At last he felt weak 
and faint, and left the waste lands to go in search of 
some-thing to eat. 

Now there is a fiend in this world, as we all 
know, who has a black heart, and can take on all 
sorts of shapes. He came to Eve in the form of a 
snake, and to Sam-son with a fair face. He tempts 
those to do wrong who have set out to do right, and 
we have to be on our guard all the time, and to 
watch and pray that we may be kept safe from him. 

When this fiend saw Je-sus on his way to give 
new hearts to men, and to make them good and 
pure, he thought he would try and put a stop to 
such work. So he went out to tempt Je-sus, with 
the same smooth voice in which he spoke to Eve. 

And he came to him and said, If thou be the 
Son of God change those stones in-to bread, so that 
thou canst eat now that thou hast need of food. 

Je-sus knew why Sa-tan had come, and he told 
him that men should take more pains to do God's 
will than to get bread to eat. Next Sa-tan took Je-sus 
to Je-ru-sa-lem, and up to a high place where the 
house of God was built. And he said to him, If 
thou be the Son of God, throw thy-self down ; for it 
is said, he shall give his an-gels charge to keep thee 
in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their 
hands lest thou dash a-gainst a stone. 



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Je-sus told him that it was not right to go where 
it was not safe, just to try if God would keep us from 
harm. 

Then Sa-tan took Je-sus up on a high mount, 
from whence could be seen all the large towns in the 
land, and all their great wealth. And he said to 
him, All these will I give thee for thine own if thou 
wilt kneel down and wor-ship me. 

Je-sus said to him, Go from me, Sa-tan, for it is 
set down in God's book, Thou shalt wor-ship the 
Lord thy God, and him a-lone shalt thou serve. 

When Sa-tan found that Je-sus paid no heed to 
his words, he. left him, and an-gels came to wait on 
the Son of God. 

In a short time Je-sus went back to the Jor-dan 
where John was, and when John saw him, he said, 
Be-hold the Lamb of God ! 

He spoke of Je-sus as the Lamb of God, for he 
was to be laid on the cross for the sins of men, as 
the lamb was in those days laid on the al-tar. 

Then Je-sus set out to preach and to turn men 
from their sins. And he went to Gal-i-lee. And 
one day as he walked by the sea shore he saw two 
men cast their net in-to the sea. Their names were 
An-drew and Pe-ter. Je-sus said to them, Come 
with me. And they left their nets at once, that 
they might be near him and learn of him. 



Jesus and John the Baptist. 



The next day he saw two men whose names 
were James and John in a boat with their fa-ther. 
Their nets had 



broke, and they 
were in haste to 
mend them so 
that they could 
take in a large 
haul of fish. But 
Je-sus spoke to 
James and John, 
and they left the 
boat at once, and 
went with him 
that he might 
teach them. 

The next day 
Je-sus spoke to 
Phil-ip and Na- 
than-i-el, and 
they left their 
homes and went 
with him. 

When Je-sus 




THE MAR-RIAGE IN CA-NA. 



came to the town of Ca-na he found quite a crowd 
there, for a wed-ding was to take place, and he and 
his mother had been bid to the feast. There was 



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food to eat and wine to drink, but ere the feast was 
at an end the wine was all gone. And when Ma-ry 
knew of it she said to Je-sus, They have no wine. 
And she bade those who were there to serve the 
guests to do just as Je-sus told them. 

Now there were in the house six large stone jars 
such as the Jews kept to hold wa-ter. Je-sus said 
to the men, Fill the jars with wa-ter. And they 
filled them to the brim. And he said to them, Take 
some out now and bear it to the chief guest of the 
feast. And they did so ; and the wa-ter was changed 
in-to wine. 

The chief guest did not know what Je-sus had 
done ; but when he had drunk some of the wine he 
sent for the bride-groom and said to him, As a rule, 
those who give a feast set out the good wine first, 
and when the guests have had all they care for they 
bring out that which is worse. But thou hast kept 
the good wine till now. 

This was the first great sign Je-sus gave of the 
power he had from on high. And it was proof to 
those whose hearts were with him that he was the 
true Son of God. 

The time of the Feast of Weeks was at hand, 
and Je-sus went up to Je-ru-sa-lem to keep it. And in 
one of the courts were men who had brought their 
wares to the house of God to sell them to the Jews 



Jesus and John the Baptist. 



when they came up to the feast. When Je-sus came 
to the place where these men were, the sight did 
not please him. 
And Je-sus 
made a scourge, 
or whip of small 
cords, and drove 
them all out, 
with their flocks 
and their herds. 
And he poured 
their gold and 
silver on the 
ground, and 
said to those 
who sold doves, 
Take them a- 
way; make not 
the house of 
God a place to 
buy and sell in. 
And while 
he was at the 
feast crowds 
were drawn to him, and had faith in him when they 
saw what won-ders he could do. Nic-o-de-mus, one 
of the chief men of the Jews, came to Je-sus in the 




DRIV-ING THE SELL-ERS FROM THE TEMPLE. 



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night, and said to him, We know that God has sent 
thee to teach us what is right, for no man could do 
these won-ders if God were not with him. 

Je-sus told him that he must have a new heart 
or he could not be a child of God. 

He- rod, who slew the babes of Beth-le-hem, was 
dead, but his son He-rod ruled in that part of Gal-i- 
lee, and he was a bad man. He took his broth-er's 
wife from him and made her his own wife. Her 
name was He-ro-di-as. When John the Bap-tist 
told He-rod this was not right, he would have put 
him to death if he had dared. But he had heard 
him preach, and knew that he was a good man. Yet 
to please He-ro-di-as He-rod had seized John, and 
bound him, and shut him up in jail. 

While John was in jail, He-rod, on his birth-day, 
made a great feast for the lords and chief men of 
Gal-i-lee. And a young girl, whose name was Sa- 
lo-me, came and danced in their midst. He-rod was 
so much pleased with her that he said, Ask of me 
what thou wilt, and thou shalt have it, though it 
were half of my realm. 

And Sa-lo-me went to He-ro-di-as — who was 
her mo-ther — and said, What shall 'I ask? 

And He-ro-di-as said to her, Ask the king to 
cut off the head of John the Bap-tist, and bring it 
to thee here in a large dish. 



The Woman at the Well—Jesus by the Sea. 

Sa-lo-me came back in haste to the king, and said, 
Give me, in a large dish, the head of John the Baptist 

He-rod was grieved, but as he had sworn to give 
her what she asked for, and those who sat near had 
heard him, he felt bound to keep his word. So he 
sent one of his train-band, who cut off John's head 
in the jail, and brought it in a large dish to Sa- 
lo-me, and she gave it to her mo-ther. 

When the friends of John heard of it they came 
up and took his dead form and laid it in a tomb, and 
went and told Je-sus. 



CHAPTER V. 

THE WOMAN AT THE WELL JESUS BY THE SEA. 

One day Je-sus and his friends came to the town 
of Sy-char, near which was a well to which all the 
folks came to draw wa-ter. It was known as Ja- 
cob's Well. The sun was hot, and Je-sus, tired with 
his long walk, sat down by this well to rest, while 
his friends went to the town to buy food. 

A wo-man came from the town to draw wa-ter. 
She led a life of sin, and had no love for God in her 
heart. And Je-sus knew this, for he sees all our 



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hearts, and knows all our thoughts, and all that we 

have done. 

And he spoke to the wo-man, and told her of the 

things she had 
done that did 
not please God. 
And she thought 
he was a seer, 
to whom God 
told things that 
were not known 
to most folks. 
And she said 
to Je-sus, I know 
that Christ is to 
come in-to the 
world, and when 
he comes he 
will tell us all 
things. Je-sus 
said to her, I 
that speak to 
thee am he. 
Then the woman left her jar, and made haste 

back to the town, and said to her friends there, Come 

and see a man who told me all the things that ever 

I did. Is not this the Christ? 




THE WO-MAN AT THE WELL. 



The Woman at the Well— Jesus by the Sea. 

And they went out and saw Je-sus, and bade him 
come in-to the town. And he went with them, and 
was there for three days. And they gave ear to the 
things he taught them. And they said to the wo- 
man, Now we have faith in him, not be-cause of 
the things thou didst tell us, but be-cause we have 
heard him our-selves, and know that he is the 
Christ whom God has sent down to us. 

From there he went once more to the town of 
Ca-na. And a rich man came from the town where 
he dwelt to ask Je-sus to come and heal his son, who 
was sick. And the rich man said to him, Come 
as quick as you can, lest my child should die. 

Je-sus said to him, Go thy way, thy son is made 
well 

The rich man knew that Je-sus would not say 
what was not true, and with a glad heart went back 
to his home. And as he drew near the house his 
slaves ran out to meet him, and said to him, Thy 
son is well. 

The rich man bade them tell him what time the 
change took place, and they told the hour that the 
fe-ver left the lad. And it was the same hour that 
Je-sus had said to the rich man, Thy son is well. 
And he and all those in his house felt in their hearts 
tnat Je-sus was the son of God. 

The Jews did not yet know how to print, and 



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they had no books such as we have. They wrote 
with pen and ink on rolls of parch-ment, made from 
the skin of sheep and goats. 

These rolls were kept in 
the house of God, in a box or 
chest called an ark, and were 
brought out and read to those 
who came to the church on the 
Lord's day. The chief rolls, 
all the books of the Old Tes- 
jf } ta-ment, were kept at Je-ru-sa- 
lem, but as all the Jews could 
not get there more than once a 
year, they had made rolls for 
their own use in each house 
of God. 

Je-sus came to Naz-a-reth 
where he had been brought 
up, and went in-to the church 
on the Lord's day and stood 
up to read. And he read 
from one of the old books 
where it was fore-told that one 
should come to bring good 
news to the poor, to cheer the sad, to give sight to 
the blind, and to heal the sick. Then he closed the 
roll and sat down. And the eyes of all in the church 




CYL-IN-DER HOLD-ING THE PENT-A-TEUCH 



The Woman at the Well— Jesus by the Sea. 

were on him. He said to them that all these words 
had come true, and that he was the Son of God, of 
whom the proph-et wrote. And they said, Is not 
this Jo-seph's son? How then can he claim to be 
the Son of God? And they were wroth with him, 




TWO PA-GES of THE SAM-AR-I-TAN PENT-A-TEUCH. 



and led him out to a steep hill on which their town 
was built, that they might cast him down and kill 
him. But Je-sus got a-way from them, and they 
could do him no harm. 

He went on to Ca-per-na-um, and great crowds 



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came there to hear him, and pushed so that there 
was scarce room for him to stand on the sea-shore. 
And he saw two boats close at hand, out of which 
the men had gone to mend their nets. And he 
went in one of the boats, which was Pe-ter's and told 
him to push it out from the land. And he sat 
down, and taught the crowd out of the boat. 

When he left off, he said to Pe-ter and An-drew, 
Sail out where the sea is deep, and let down your 
nets to catch fish. 

Pe-ter said, Mas-ter, we have been hard at work 
all the night, and not a fish have we caught; but, 
since thou dost bid me, I will let down the net. 

When they had done this, they caught such a large 
haul of fish that the net broke. Then they called to 
their friends in the boat by the shore, and bade them 
come to their aid. And they came, and there was 
more fish than the two boats could hold. 

When Pe-ter saw this he fell down at the feet of 
Je-sus, and said, I fear thee, for I am full of sin, O 
Lord. And those with him were spell-bound at sight 
of the fish they had caught. 

Je-sus did this great won-der so that these men 
might see it and know that he was the Son of God; 
for they were to aid him in his work, and to go 
with him from place to place. 

Je-sus said to Pe-ter, Fear not; from this time 



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forth thou shalt catch men and not fish. He meant 
by this that Pe-ter was to preach, and to save men 
from sin, and from the nets that Sa-tan spreads. And 
he said to them all, Come with me. And they left 
their boats and their nets, and all that they had, and 
were with Je-sus till the end of his life on earth. 

On the Day of Rest, Je-sus went in-to the church 
and taught the folks there. And in their midst was 
a man who was not in his right mind, and it was as 
if he were torn by fiends, and he cried out to Je-sus, 
Let us a-lone. What have we to do with thee, thou 
Je-sus of Naz-a-reth? Art thou come to kill us? I 
know thee, that thou art the Son of God. Je-sus 
said to the fiends that were in the man, Be still, and 
come out of him. Then the fiends threw the man 
down, and cried with a loud voice, and came out of 
him. And all those in the church were struck with 
awe, and they said a-mong them-selves, What does 
this mean ? for he speaks to the fiends so that they 
are forced to do his will ! 

When they came out of the church Je-sus went 
to the house where Pe-ter and An-drew dwelt. And 
James and John were there. And Pe-ter's wife's 
mo-ther was sick of a fe-ver, and they told Je-sus of 
it and begged that he would heal her. 

Je-sus took her by the hand, and bade the fe-ver 
come out of her. And she was made well at once, 
and rose from her bed, and took charge of her house. 



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At the close of the day, when the sun had set, 
great crowds came to the house where Je-sus was, 
and brought 
those who were 
sick, and those 
who were not 
in their right 
minds, that he 
might cure 
them. And 
he made the 
sick well, and 
drove out the 
fiends, and 
would not let 
them speak. 

The next 
day Je-sus rose 
ere it was light 
and went out 
to a lone place 
to pray to God. 

For though 
he was the 
Son of God, he had come to the earth in the form 
of a man, and had all the wants that man has. He 
had need of food and drink, and felt pain and grief 

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just as we do. He had need of man's help in his 
work ; and had need of God's help all the time. 
And he knelt to God, just as he wants us to do, 
and asked God to be near him and to give him 
more strength, and to help him to do his will. 

When Je-sus had gone, crowds came up to the 
house to seek him. And Pe-ter, and the three that 
were with him, went out to look for Je-sus. And 
when they found him they told him of the great 
crowd that sought him. 

Je-sus said, Let us go to the next towns, that I 
may tell the good news there ; for I was not sent to 
stay in one place. 

And he taught all through Gal-i-lee, and his 
fame spread, and great crowds went to hear him. 



CHAPTER VI. 

JESUS HEALS THE SICK, AND DOES GOOD WORKS ON 

THE DAY OF REST. 

A man came to Je-sus and knelt down at his feet 
and said, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make me 
clean. This man was a lep-er. He had white sores 
on his skin, and had to live by him-self or with those 
as bad off as him-self, and there was no cure for him 



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but death. It was not safe to breathe the air near a 
lep-er, and so he was sent at once out of the town, as 
soon as his case was known. 
This lep-er must 



have heard of Je-sus 
and the great works 
he had done, and 
the hope that had 
died out must have 
sprung up in his 
heart once more. If 
he could heal the 
sick, and make the 
lame walk, why could 
he not cure him, so 
that he would be fit 
to live with those he 
loved ? At least he 
could ask ; and oh ! 
how great must have 
been his faith when 
he fell down at the 

feet 01 I e _ SUS and Cub-ing thk man -lams with pal-st. 

cried out, Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make me clean. 

Je-sus put out his hand and touched the man, 
and said, I will : be thou clean. 

And at once the sores left the man and his skin 




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was white and smooth. Then Je-sus sent him off, 
and bade him tell no man who had made him well, 
but to go to the priest and do as Mo-ses bid all those 
do who had been lep-ers and were cured. 

But the man was so full of joy that he could not 
keep it to him-self, and he went out and told what 
Jesus had done for him. 

Now there were some Jews who were known as 
Scribes and Phar-i-sees. They made out that no 
one else was quite as good as they were. They knew 
all the laws of Mo-ses by heart, and they were strict 
to see that no Jews broke those laws. A Scribe is 
one who writes. 

These Scribes and Phar-i-sees were thought to be 
wise and good men, for they would fast and pray for 
a long while at a time, and look as though they 
thought them-selves too pure for earth. 

But their hearts were bad and full of sin, and 
wnen Je-sus told them they must give up their sins 
and lead the right kind of lives, they were wroth with 
him, and tried to make all the rest of the Jews hate 
him as much as they did. 

Je-sus went down to Ca-per-na-um, and when it 
was known that he was in the town great crowds 
came to the house where he was to hear him preach. 

Now there was a man who had been in bed for a 
Jong time, and could not move hand or foot. He 



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had heard of the fame of Je-sus, and it was the wish 
of his heart to get near him that he might heal him 
with a touch. But Je-sus was a long way off, and the 
poor sick man could not walk one step. But he had 
kind friends, and they thought of a plan by which he 
could be brought near to Je-sus, that he might at 
least hear him preach. 

So they took him on his bed and bore him to the 
town ; but when they came to the house where Je-sus, 
was, the crowd was so great that there was no chance- 
to get near him. What were they to do ? 

Now the house was low and had a flat roof, with 
a wall round it, so that those who dwelt there could 
walk or sleep on it and have no fear that they would 
fall off. All the rooms down stairs led out in-to a 
court, which had a roof that could be slid off when it 
did not rain, or there was need of fresh air. 

So the friends of the lame man drew the bed up on 
the house-top with him in it, and brought him to the 
space in the roof, through which they could see Je-sus 
and the crowds round him. And they let the man 
down on his bed in the midst of the crowd, which 
had to make way for him. 

When Je-sus saw what great faith they had, he 
spoke to the sick man, and said, Thy sins are for- 
giv-en thee. Some of the Scribes and Phar-i-sees 
who sat near said, but not out loud, Who is this that 



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dares speak in this way ? None but God can for- 
give sins. 

Je-sus knew their thoughts, and he said to them, 
Why think ye these things ? Which could be said 
with the most ease, Thy sins be for-giv-en thee, or 
Rise up and walk ? 

But to show you that I have pow-er to for-give 
sins, I will make him well. 

So he said to the sick man, Rise, take up thy 
bed, and go to thy house. 

And the man rose and stood on his feet, and took 
up the bed on which he had lain and went out and 
gave praise and thanks to God. 

And those who saw him-were in a maze and said, 
We have seen strange things to-day. 

Now the Jews, as you know, were slaves of the 
Ce-sar of Rome, and to keep their peace with him they 
had to pay a tax. And the men to whom they paid 
the tax were known as pub-li-cans. Some of them 
were harsh and stern, and the Jews could not but 
hate them. But all were not so. And as Je-sus 
went by he saw one of these pub-li-cans with his gold 
and sil-ver close at hand. His name was Matth-ew. 
Je-sus spoke to him, and said, Come with me. 

And Matth-ew left all, and went with Je-sus, and 
from that time did all that he could to spread the 
good news, and to serve the Lord Christ. 



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Af-ter this there was a feast of the Jews, and Je- 
sus went up to Je-ru-sa-lem. Now there was at Je- 
ru-sa-lem a pool, which was known as the Pool of Be- 
thes-da. And there 



were five courts, or 
door-ways, that led 
down to the pool. 
And in these courts 
lay a great crowd of 
folks who were sick, 
or blind, or lame. 

For this was the 
timeof the year when 
an an-gel came to 
stir the pool. And 
it was thought that 
the one who went in- 
to the pool the first, 
when the an-gel had 
made it fresh and 
sweet, would be 
cured of all the ails 
that he might have. 

And a man was there who had been sick for 
most two score years. Je-sus saw him, and knew 
that he had been sick for a long time, and it made 
him sad to think of it. So he said to the man, 
Wilt thou be made well ? 




THE POOL OF BE-THES-DA. 



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The man said, I have no one to help me in-to the 
pool, for when I try to get down to it, some one steps 
in a-head of me and I am too late. 

Je-sus said to him, Rise, take up thy bed and 
walk. 

And at once the man was made well, and took 
up his bed, and walked. 

Now it was the Day of Rest. And the Jews, 
who were quick to find fault with those who broke 
the laws, said to the man when he came their way, 
It is not right for thee to move thy bed on this day. 

He said to them, he that made me well told me 
to take up my bed and walk. 

They said to him, Who was it told thee that ? 

And the man did not know, and could not point 
Je-sus out to them, the crowd was so great. 

But ere the feast was at an end Je-sus met the 
man He hud cured and said to him, Now thou art 
well, sin no more lest a worse thing come to thee. 

Then the man went out and told the Jews that 
it was Je-sus who had cured him on the Day of Rest. 
And for this the Jews sought to kill Je-sus. But he 
told them that the works he did were proof that 
God had sent him, and that he was the one of 
whom the seers had told in the days that were past, 
and of whom Mo-ses wrote. 

He said that the time was near at hand when the 



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dead should hear the voice of the Son of God, and 

those who were in their graves should come forth. 

Then he would judge them. Those who had done 

good would be 

blest, for God 

would give 

them a home 

with him in the 

sky; but those 

who had done 

ill, and died in 

their sins, would 

not meet the 

smile of God, 

nor have a place 

near his throne. 

Je-sussaidif 
the love of God 
was in their 
hearts they 
would trust 
him whom God 
had sent, and 
feel that he 
had come to do them good, and to save their souls 
from death. 

Je-sus and his five friends, An-drew, Pe-ter, 




IN THE CORN-FIELDS. 



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James, John, and Matth-ew, went out on the next 
Day of Rest, and their walk led them through a field 
of corn. And as the men had need of food, Je-sus 

^m told them to pluck 
and eat the ears ot 
corn. And they 
did so. 

In the East they 
gave the name of 
corn to all kinds of 
grain. 

When the Phar- 
i-sees saw it they 
found fault, and Je- 
sus told them that 
he was the best 
judge of what was 
right to do on that 
day ; for he was 
Lord of the Day of 
Rest. 

In the course of 

a few weeks he went 

in-to a church and 

taught on the Lord's day. And a man was there 

whose hand was so drawn up that he could not stretch 

it out or do aught with it. And the Phar-i-sees 




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kept a close watch on Je-sus to see if he would heal 
the man on that day, so that they might find fault 
with them. 

Je-sus knew their thoughts, and he said to the 
man with the lame hand, Rise up, and stand where 
all can see you. And the man rose, and stood forth. 




JER-U-SA-LEM. 



Je-sus said to them, I will ask you one thing: 
Is it right to do good or to do ill on the Day of Rest ? 
to take life or to save it ? And he stood and looked 
at all those that were in the place. Then he said to 
the man, Stretch out thy hand. And he did so, and 
it was well and strong. 



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This made the Phar-i-sees hate Je-sus, so that 
they went out of the church and sought for some way 
to put him to death. When he knew of it he left 
the place, and came down to the sea of Gal-i-lee. 
And crowds came to him from the land of Ju-dah 
and from large towns that were far off, to see the 
great works that he did. And the sick crept near 
so that they* could touch him, and he made them 
all well. 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 

Je-sus left the crowd, and went to a lone place to 
pray to God. And he spent the night there. The 
next morn he chose twelve men, that he might send 
them out to preach, and to heal those that were sick, 
and to cast out dev-ils. Their names were Pe-ter, 
An-drew, James and John, the sons of Zeb-e-dee, 
Phil-ip, Bar-thol-o-mew, Thom-as and Matth-ew, 
James and Leb-be-us, Simon and Judas Is-ca-ri-ot. 

And the crowd was so great that Je-sus went up 
on a hill, and the twelve went with him and he 
taught them there. He told them that those who 
were in a high state of joy, with not a care to vex 




THE SER-MON ON THE MOUNT. 



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them, were called blest. And he said, not in these 
words, but in words that meant the same : 

Blest are the poor in spirit, for God is with them. 

By poor in spirit he meant those who did not 
think too much of them-selves, who were not vain 
nor proud, but rich in love to God. And he would 
be with them, and bless them all their lives. 

Blest are those that mourn, for their tears shall 
be dried. 

To mourn is to weep, and to grieve. Je-sus 
meant that those who wept for their sins should shed 
no more tears, for Christ had come to save them, and 
the good news should make them glad. 

Blest are the meek, for the whole earth shall be 
theirs. 

Je-sus meant by this that those who were fond of 
peace, and did not love strife, might dwell where 
they chose, and would be blest in this world and the 
world to come. 

Blest are those who hun-ger and thirst for that 
which is good, for they shall be filled. 

This meant that those who sought to do right 
and to grow in grace had but to pray to God, and he 
would give them all the strength they might need 
from day to day. 

Blest are those who are kind and good, for the 
Lord will be kind to them in their hour of need. 



The Sermon on the Mount. 

Blest are those who are pure in heart, for they 
shall see God, 

Those who are pure in heart will be fond of good 
works, and will lead good lives, and God will not 
turn his face from them. 

Blest are the peace-ma-kers — those who try to 
keep the peace and to put an end to strife — for they 
shall be call-ed the chil-dren of God. 

Blest are those who are ill-used for my sake, for 
the more the world hates them the more will God 
love them. 

Je-sus told them that when men said hard things 
of them for his sake, and call-ed them vile, and 
were harsh with them and full of spite, they were 
not to grieve but to be glad. For so did bad men 
treat the seers of old who told them of their faults 
and their sins and tried to lead them to Christ. 

Salt is good, and gives a taste to our food. 

Je-sus told them they were to salt the earth. 
This meant that they were to tell the good news in 
such a way that men should want it and need it just 
^s they did salt. 

He told them, too, that they must let their light 
shine; he meant that they should let it be seen and 
known that they loved God, and tried to do his 
will. They were not to hide it from men, but to do 
such good works, in Christ's name, that those who 



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did not love or care for him might be drawn to Je< 
sus — the light of the world. 

Je-sus said that if we do as we ought to do our- 
selves, and teach men to keep all God's laws, we 
shall be called great in the place where God dwells. 
But if, like the Scribes and Phar-i-sees, we teach 
what is right and do what is wrong, we shall not see 
God's face, or live with him on high. 

He said, you have been taught not to kill; and 
that he who puts one to death will be brought to the 
judge, and made to suf-fer for the crime. But I say 
to you that it is a sin to hate those who have done 
you no harm, and God will pun-ish you for it. 

Then he said that when they went to church to 
wor-ship God they must try and think if they had 
done wrong, had been harsh, or had said what was 
not true. And they were to go at once and do right 
to those whom they hurt in this way, for God did not 
care to have them bow down to him if their hearts 
were full of sins they were not sor-ry for. 

We must be good and pure, Je-sus says, in all 
that we say and do : we must do no harm to those 
who harm us, but must be kind and good to them, 
and pray for them, and love them. 

Bless those that curse you, and do good to those 
that hate you. This is a hard task, and none but 
those who have the love of Christ in their hearts can 



The Sermon on the Mount. 

do it. But if we pray for strength, the strength is 
sure to come, and love takes the place of hate. 

Some folks when they do good deeds like to 
make a great show and noise, that they may be seen 
of men, and have much praise from them. 

Je-sus told the Twelve that they were to do right, 
not to please men but to please God. When they 
gave to the poor they were not to tell of it; and 
when they prayed they were not to choose a place 
where they could be seen of men — just to show how 
good they were — but were to go to their room and 
shut the door, that no one but God could hear them. 
Then God would give them what they asked for. 

Je-sus taught them how to pray, and what words 
to use ; and these words each child ought to learn by 
heart and use at least twice a day: 

"Our Fa-ther which art in heav-en, Hal-low-ed 
be thy name. Thy King-dom come. Thy will be 
done on earth as it is in heav-en. Give us this day 
our daily bread. And for-give us our debts, as we 
for-give our debt-ors. And lead us not in-to tempt- 
a-tion, but del-iv-er us from e-vil : For thine is the 
King-dom, and the pow-er, and the glo-ry, for ever. 
A-men. " 

When they should fast they were not to look sad 
as those did whose wish it was that men should see 
them fast, but they were to hold up their heads and 

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wear a look of cheer that no one but God should 
know it. And God would bless them for it. 

Je-sus said we must not want to be rich or to lay 
up wealth in this world, for when we die we can not 
take it with us. But we should give our hearts 
to thoughts of God, and try to live so that we can 
share his home, where we shall have more things to 
please us than all the gold in the world can buy. 

Je-sus said that no man could serve God and 
serve Sa-tan too. We serve God when we do right; 
and we serve Sa-tan when we do wrong. 

So we can-not do the will of both, and must 
choose which one we will serve. 

He told the Twelve not to judge folks; he meant 
that they must take care how they found fault, and 
blamed them. For they may not have done wrong, 
or if they did they may have meant no harm. We 
can-not see men's hearts, or know how they felt at 
the time they did the deed. But God knows all, and 
may not blame them as much as we do. Je-sus said 
that we should strive to do right our-selves, and then 
we should see with clear eyes who did wrong, and 
have a right to tell them of their faults. 

He said, that what we want men to do to us we 
must do to them. If we want them to be kind and 
good and to treat us well, we must do the same by 
them. 



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He said, Strive to go in at the strait, or nar-row 
gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that 
leads to death. 
He meant that 
the good and 
the bad ways are 
like two gates 
in our path, for 
us to choose 
which one we 
will go through. 

The good 
way is small and 
hard to find, 
and we have 
to search for it 
with great care. 
But the path is 
one that leads 
to life and joy. 

The bad 
way is like a 
broad gate that 
stands o-pen 
and in plain sight. This wide gate leads down to 
hell, and crowds and crowds go that way, while but 
few are found in the good way that leads to bliss. 




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Je-sus said that at the last day some would call 
him Lord, Lord, and say they had served him and 
taught as he did. But he would say that he did not 
know them, for they had bad hearts, and had led 
lives of sin, and were not fit to dwell with the good 
and pure in the home on high, where all is love. 

He said that men were like trees. Good trees 
brought forth good fruit; but a bad tree could not 
bring forth good fruit. And men were to be known 
by their works, just as a tree was known by its fruits. 

Then he spoke of two men, each of whom built 
a house. One chose to build on a rock. And the 
rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew 
and beat on that house, but it stood firm and the 
storm did it no harm. 

But one of the men built his house on the sand. 
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the 
winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell with a 
great crash, and was swept out of sight. 

Je-sus said that those who heard his words and 
did as he told them were like the wise man who 
built his house on a rock. Christ is our Rock. He 
stands firm. No storms can move him. If we 
cling to him he will save us. 

Je-sus said that those who heard his words and 
did not do as he taught them, were like the man who 
built his house on the sand. When the storm came 



Good Words and Good Works. 

on the last day, when God would judge the world, 
they would be swept out of sight. And oh ! what a 
sad, sad day that will be for all those who have led 
bad lives, and done not the least thing to please God, 
who took care of them and gave them all they had. 

We must strive to be good all the time, and to 
love Je-sus, so that he will be near us, and will take 
us home to live with him when we die. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

GOOD WORDS AND GOOD WORKS. 

There was at Ca-per-na-um a chief who had 
charge of five score Ro-man troops. And one of his 
men, who was dear to him, was so sick that he was 
like to die. When the chief heard that Je-sus was 
there he sent some of his friends down to ask him to 
make the sick man well. Those who brought the 
word to Je-sus were Jews, and they spoke a good 
word for the chief, who had been kind to them. 

Then Je-sus went with them. But as they drew 
near the chief's house he sent some more friends out 
to tell Je-sus that he had not gone down to him him- 
self, for he was not good e-nough. And now he sent 
word that he was not good e-nough for Je-sus to 



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come in-to his house. But if Je-sus would speak the 

word, he was sure that the sick man would get well. 

For I stand at the head of my troops, said the 

chief, and say to this 
one, Go, and he goes; 
and to that one, Come, 
and he comes; and to 
a third, Do this, and he 
does it. 

And he knew that 
if he could do this Je- 
sus could do more, and 
bid all the ills leave the 
sick man at the sound 
of his voice. 

When Je-sus heard 
these words he was a- 
mazed, and said to 
those who were with 
him, I have found no 
one who has such faith 
in me as this Ro-man, 
And I tell you that at 
the last day those who have had faith in me shall 
come from all lands, and have a place near God's 
throne; while the Jews, who will not put their trust 
in me. will be shut out. 




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Good Words and Good Works. 



And when the friends of the chief went back they 
found the sick man made well. 

The next day ^ra 
Je-sus went to ||||jSr 
the town of 
Nain. And a 
great crowd went 
with him. And 
as they came near 
the gate of the 
town they saw 
a dead man 
brought out to 
be borne to his 
grave. He was 
all the son his 
mo-ther had, and 
her friends stood 
near her and 
wept with her. 

When Je-sus 
saw her grief his 
heart was sad, and 
nesaid W eeonot. the wid -° ws s ° n brought to life. 

And he came up to the bier on which the dead 
lay, and those who bore it stood still. Then Je-sus 
said, Young man, I say to thee a-rise. 




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And he that was dead sat up and spoke. And 
Je-sus gave him to his mo-ther. And a great fear 
came on all who saw it, and they gave praise to God, 
and said that a great proph-et had been raised up in 
their midst. 

In old times those who lived in the East did 
not wear shoes such as we do. They wore light 
soles, or san-dals, which were bound on their feet 
with straps, and thrown off as soon as they came in- 
to the house. Then wa-ter was brought for them to 
wash their feet 

Much oil was used in those lands, and is to this 
day. It was put on the hair to keep it moist, and 
on the skin to make it soft and smooth. This oil, 
when some-what hard, was called oint-ment, and was 
kept in a box, and had a nice smell. 

Now a Phar-i-see, whose name was Si-mon, 
asked Je-sus to his house. And Je-sus went there, 
and they sat down to eat. And a wo-man of the 
town, who had led a life of sin, when she heard that 
Je-sus was there, came in with a box of oint-ment and 
bowed down at his feet. 

She was full of shame, for her sins had been great, 
and she had come to Je-sus to ask him to for-give her 
and help her to lead a new life. 

She wept, and washed the feet of Je-sus with her 
tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 



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And she kissed his feet, and rubbed them with the 
oint-ment she had brought, and which had cost her 
a high price. 

When the Phar-i-see saw it he said to him-self, 
If this man had come from God he would know 
what kind of a 
wo-man this is, 
and would send 
her out of his 
sight. 

Je-sus, who 
knew his every 
thought, said to 
him, Si-mon, I 
have some- 
thing to say to 
thee. 

And he said, 
My lord, say on. 

Then Je-sus said, Two men were in debt to a 
rich man. One owed him a great deal, while the 
oth-er owed him but a small sum. But they were 
both so poor that they could not pay him, and he 
told them to think no more of the debt, for it would 
be the same as if they had paid all they owed. Tell 
me now which one of these would love him the 
most. 




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The Phar-i-see said, I should think that he to 
whom he for-gave the most. 

Je-sus said to him, That is true. 

And he turned to the wo-man and said to Si 
mon, See'st thou this wo-man ?■ I came to thy house, 
and thou didst bring me no wa-ter to wash my feet, 
but she hath washed my feet with her tears and 
wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou didst 
give me no kiss, but this wo-man, since the time I 
came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet. My head 
with oil thou didst not an-oint, but she has poured 
her oint-ment on my feet. So I say to thee that her 
sins, though so great, will be all wiped out, for she 
has loved me much. 

And he said to the wo-man, Thy faith has saved 
thee ; go back to thy home in peace. 

From this place Je-sus went on through all 
the large and small towns, and told the good news 
that God had sent his Son in-to the world to 
save men from their sins. And the twelve were 
with him. 

Je-sus might have been rich, for all the world was 
his ; but he chose to be poor, and to bear all the ills 
of life for our sakes, that we might be drawn to him, 
and be saved from our sins. Good wo-men, whom 
he had cured, gave him such things as he had need 
of, and he did not lack for food or friends. 



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Je-sus spoKe at times in a strange way. He 
would take scenes from real life and paint them, 
as it were, with words, so that they were plain 
to all. These talks were meant to teach great 
truths that would lodge in the mind, and stand out 
like scenes of real life. They were to take them 
home with them, and keep them in their thoughts 
from day to day. 

One of these talks was of a rich man who had 
large fields and vine-yards. And when it was time 
for the crops to come in, the rich man found that his 
barns would not hold them. 

And he said, What shall I do? for I have no 
room where I can put my fruits. This will I do : I 
will pull down my small barns and build large ones, 
and there will I store all my goods. And I will say 
to my-self, Thou hast much goods laid up that will 
last thee for years and years; take thine ease, eat, 
drink, and be of good cheer. 

But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thou 
shalt die. Then who shall have those things which 
thou hast laid up for years to come ? 

This was to teach us that it is of no use for 
men to lay up great wealth in this world, for they 
will have to leave it all when they die. And it 
is a sin for a rich man to spend all that he owns 
on him-self, to live at his ease, and to eat and drink, 



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as if there were no poor in the world, and no God 
to serve. 

Je-sus told the twelve not to fret be-cause they 
were poor, or to have the least fear that they might 
want for food, or for clothes to wear. Think of the 
birds, he said. They do not sow seed in the fields, 
nor reap grain and lay it up for use in time of need. 
They have no store-house or barn, yet they have all 
the food they want, for God feeds them and takes 
care of them. And if he does so much for the birds, 
how much more will he do for you ? 

Look at the flow-ers, See how they grow. They 
do not work, or spin the thread to weave in-to cloth 
as men must do, and yet I say to you that King 
Sol-o-mon did not wear such rich robes as theirs. If 
then God gives such fine clothes to that which grows 
in the field like grass, and which in a day or two is 
burnt up, how much more will he clothe you, though 
ye are so loth to trust him. So do not fret lest you 
shall want for things to eat, and to drink, and to 
wear ; for God knows that ye have need of these 
things, and if ye seek first to do his will, he will give 
all these things to you. 



CHAPTER IX. 



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JESUS AT THE SEA-SHORE. 

While Je-sus was down by the sea, the crowd 
grew so great that he went in-to a boat and sat down 
to teach them as they r 
stood on the shore. 

He said, A man 
went out in the field 
to sow his seed. And 
as he threw the seed 
from his hand, some 
of it fell on the hard 
path by the road side, 
and the birds flew 




down and ate it. Some 

fell on the rocks and 

stones where there was 

not much earth, and 

it soon grew up on top 

of the ground. But 

the sun's warm rays 

made it droop, and as it had no root, in a few days 

it was all dried up, 



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Some of the seed fell where thorns and weeds 
were, and these took up all the room, so that there 
was no space for the seed to grow. The air and the 
sun could not get at it, and soon it was choked to 
death. 

But some of the seed fell in good ground, that 
the plough had made soft. The rain fell on it, 
the sun shone on it, and it sprang up and bore a 
large crop of grain. 

When the crowd had left Je-sus, the twelve 
came near to ask him what he had meant to teach 
by this talk of seeds that were sown here and there. 

Je-sus told them the seed was the good news 
that he came to preach. Those who preach, or 
teach, sow good or bad seed, which takes root in the 
mind or heart. 

Some who heard his words would not care for 
them, but would go on in their sins and feel no 
change of heart. New thoughts and fresh scenes 
would come and eat up the seed-thoughts that Je- 
sus had sown, as quick as the birds ate up the seed 
sown by the road-side. 

Some who heard him thought of his words for 
a-while, and tried for a short time to do right. But 
it did not last long. This was the seed that fell in 
the midst of stones, and sprang up at first, but in a 
few days was all dried up. 



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Some would hear Je-sus preach, and were glad 
of the words that he spoke ; but the cares of this 
world, their wealth, and the gay things of life, were 
so much in their thoughts that they could not do the 
things he had taught 
them. 

This was the seed 
that fell in the midst of 
thorns, and the thorns 
grew up and choked it. 

But there were some 
who heard J e-sus preach, 
and who tried each day 
to do as he taught them. 
This was the seed that 
fell in good ground, 
which took root and grew 
and brought forth ten 
times as much as had 
been sown. . 

One of the talks of Je- 
sus was of a man who sowed good seed in his field. 
And while he slept a foe came and sowed tares, or 
weeds, in the midst of the wheat, and then went on 
his way. And when it was time for the wheat to 
grow up, the weeds grew up with it. 

And when the work-men on the farm saw this, 




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they went at once to the man of the house, and said 
to him, Didst thou not sow good seed in thy field ? 
Where then have these tares come from ? 

He said to them, A foe has done this. 

The work-men said, Shall we go out, then, and 
pull them up by the roots? 

And he said, No, lest while you pull up the tares 
you pull up the wheat with them. Let both grow 
till it is time to reap the grain; and then I will say 
to the reap-ers, Pull up the tares first and bind them 
in stacks to burn. But put the wheat in my barn. 

Je-sus told the twelve what he meant by this 
talk of the tares of the field. 

The field is the world. H e who owns the field and 
sows the seed, is Je-sus him-self. The wheat that 
grows up means those who hear his words, and do 
as he has taught them. 

The tares are bad men, who have no love for 
Je-sus. 

The foe that sows them is Sa-tan. 

The time to reap the grain is on the last great 
day. The reap-ers are the an-gels. 

Je-sus will let the good and the bad live in the 
world till the last great day. Then he will send 
his an-gels to take the good to their home on high, 
but the bad will be cast out in-to the fire that is to 
burn up the world. 



Jesus at the Sea-Shore. 



Then Je-sus spoke of a man who went out to buy 
pearls. He went from place to place, and those who 
had pearls to sell brought them out for him to look 
at, but he was hard to suit, and bought but few. At 
last he found one that was worth more than all the 
rest that he had seen. 
But its price was so great 
that he could not buy it. 
What did he do? Why, 
he went and sold all that 
he had, and came back 
and bought this pearl of 
great price. 

So will it be with 
those who wish to be rid 
of their sins, and to be as 
pure as a pearl with-in. 
Je-sus in us is the pearl 
of great price. Gold can- 
not buy it. But when 
we learn its cost we should 
make haste to get rid of 
all that keeps Christ out of our hearts, and make 
room for this one pearl, which is worth more than 
all else in the world. 

Then Je-sus spoke of those who took their net, 
and went out in a boat to catch fish. Thev cast the 




SEEK-ING GREAT PEARLS. 



Y. F. B.— 2 



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net out of the boat and threw it in-to the sea, and 
when it was full drew it back to shore. Then they 
sat down to sort the fish; the good ones were put in 
their boats, and the bad ones were thrown a-way. 

So it would be at 
the last day. The an- 
gels would come forth 
and sort the good from 
the bad. And the good 
would be borne to their 
home on high, but the 
bad would be thrown 
in-to a fire that would 
make them cry out with 
pain. 

Je-sus said, 




th 



ese 



Have 

things 
And 



I made 
plain to thee ? 
they said, Yes, Lord. 

One of the Scribes 
came to Je-sus, and 
said, I will not leave 
thee; but where thou 
dost go I will go. Je-sus said to him, The fox-es 
have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but 
I have not where to lay my head. He meant by 
this that he was poor, and had no- place where 



PAR-A-BLE OF THE NETS. 



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he could go and lie down when he had need of 
rest. 

Night drew near, and the crowd was so great 
that Je-sus and the twelve went in a boat to cross 
the Sea of Gal-i-lee. And 
there came up a great 
storm, and the winds blew 
fierce, and the waves rose 
high and came with a great 
dash in-to the boat. 

And Je-sus slept, for 
he was quite worn out. 
The twelve were full of 
fear ; and at last they woke 
Je-sus, and said, Lord, 
save us, or we shall sink. 

Then he rose and 
spoke to the winds and 
the waves, and said to 
them, Peace, be still. 
And the wind ceased to 
blow, and soon all was still 
and calm. 

And Je-sus said to the twelve, Why are ye in 
such fear? How is it that ye have no faith? 

As Je-sus left the boat a mad-man came out of 
the tombs to meet him. He was so fierce that no man 




STILL-ING THE TEM-PEST. 



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could bind him, or tame him. He broke loose from 
all the ropes and chains, and no house could hold 
him. So night and day he would roam on the hills 
and in the caves or tombs, where graves had been 
dug, and cry out and cut him-self with bits of stones. 

And while Je-sus was still far off, the mad-man 
saw him and ran and fell down at his feet. And he 
cried out, What have I to do with thee, Je-sus, thou 
Son of God? Harm me not, I pray thee. 

Now there was there, close by the hills, a great 
herd of swine. And the fiends that were in the man 
begged Je-sus to send them in-to the swine. And 
Je-sus said, Go. And when they came out of the 
man they went in the swine, and the herd ran down 
a steep place and were drowned in the sea. 

And they that fed the swine went and told what 
had been done, and great crowds came to the place 
where Je-sus was. 

And when they saw that the mad-man sat with 
his clothes on and in his right mind, they were in 
great fear. And they prayed Je-sus to leave the 
place at once. 

When Je-sus was come in-to the boat, he that had 
been out of his mind begged that he might go with 
him. But Je-sus would not let him, and said to 
him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them what 
great things the Lord hath done for thee. 



Jerus Brings the Dead to Life. 

And the man went and told how he had been 
made well, and those who heard him felt that Je-sus 
must have been sent from God, for no mere man 
could do such strange things. 



CHAPTER X. 

JESUS BRINGS THE DEAD TO LIFE. FEEDS FIVE 

THOUSAND. 

Je-sus went back to Ca-per-na-um. And as he 
stood by the sea-shore, one of the chief men of the 
church came to him, whose name was Ja-i-rus. 

He was in deep grief, for he had but one child, 
a girl twelve years of age, and she lay sick at his 
home and there was no help for her. And he said 
to Je-sus, My child lies at the point of death. I 
pray thee come and lay thy hands on her that she 
may live. 

And Je-sus went with him, and so did the 
twelve, and all the crowd that had come up to hear 
Je-sus preach. And in the throng was a wo-man 
who had been sick for twelve years. She had spent 
all she had to try to be made well ; but all the drugs 
she took did her no good, and no one could seem to 
help her case. So she went on from bad to worse. 



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When she heard of Je-sus she came up with the 
crowd at his back, and put out her hand and touched 
the hem of his robe. For, she said, if I may touch 
but his clothes I shall be made well. And as soon 
as she had done this she felt that she was cured. 

All this was known to Je-sus, and yet he faced 
the crowd and said, Who touched me? 

Pe-ter said that some one in the throng had been 
pushed up close to him, and thought it strange that 
Je-sus did not know it. 

Je-sus said, Some one touched me, and he looked 
round to see who had done it. 

When the wo-man saw that Je-sus knew all, and 
that she could not hide from him, she shook with fear, 
and fell down at his feet, and told him why she had 
touched him, and how that touch had made her well. 

Je-sus said to her, Be of good cheer. Thy faith 
in me hath made thee well. 

While he yet spoke to her, there came one from 
the house of Ja-i-rus, who said to him, Thy child is 
dead. 

When Je-sus heard it he said, Fear not. Trust 
in me and she shall be made well. And when he 
came to the house, he found a great crowd there, who 
wept and mourned the loss of the young child. 

Je-sus said to them, Why do you weep? She 
sleeps; she is not dead. 



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He meant that she would soon rise from the dead, 
as one who wakes out of his sleep. 

But they saw that she was dead, and as they had 
no faith in his words 
they laughed him to 
scorn. 

Then he put them 
all out of the room save 
three of the twelve — 
Pe-ter, James, and 
John — and the fa-ther 
and mo-ther of the 
young girl. Then he 
took the child by the 
hand and said, I say 
to thee a-rise. And 
she rose from her bed, 
and had strength to 
walk, and Je-sus bade 
them bring her some 
food that she might eat. 

And her fa-ther and 
mo-ther knew not what 
to think of these 
strange things. Je-sus bade them tell no one of what 
he had done, and there was no need for them to 
speak. For there was their child, well and strong, 




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once more the light and joy of their house, and 
their hearts must have been full of thanks and 
praise to God ! 

When Je-suswent from the house of Ja-i-rus two 

blind men came near 
him and cried out, 
Thou Son of Da-vid 
have mer-cy on us. 
They said this be-cause 
they knew that he was 
of King Da-vid's race. 
Je-sus said to them, 
Do you think that I can 
make you well ? They 
said to him, Yes, Lord. 
Then he touched 
their eyes, and at once 
their sight came back 
to them. And he said 
to them, Tell no man 
what I have done to 
you. But when they 
left him they went from 
place to place and told all whom they met how Je- 
sus had brought back their sight. 

And they brought to him a dumb man who could 
not speak be-cause of the fiend that was in him. And 




THE DAUGHTER OF JA-I-RUS 



Jesus Brings the Dead to Life. 



as soon as Je-sus cast put the fiend the man spoke. 
And all those who saw it were in a maze, and said, 
Such things as these have not been done be-fore 
the land of Is- 



ln 
ra-el. 

But the Phari- 
sees felt such hate 
for Je-sus that they 
said that he could 
cast out fiends be- 
cause he had the 
help of Sa-tan, the 
prince of all fiends. 

Je-sus said to 
the twelve, Come, 
let us go to some 
lone place and rest 
a while. For the 
crowds were so great 
that they had no 
time to eat. And 
they went in a boat 
quiet-ly to cross the 
Sea of Gal-i-lee, where they might rest and take the 
food they were so much in need of. But as soon as the 
folks heard of it they set out on foot and went round by 
the shore till they came to the place where Je-sus was. 




THE TWO BLIND MEN. 



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And when Je-sus went out and saw them, his 
heart was moved, and he taught them, and made the 
sick ones well. 

When night came on, the twelve said to Je-sus, 
Send these off that they may go to the towns and 
buy food for them-selves, for they have nought 
to eat. 

Je-sus said, They need not go. Give you them 
some-thing to eat. 

They said, Shall we go out and buy bread and 
give it to them? 

Je-sus said, How much have you? Go and see. 

When they knew they said, We have five loaves 
and two small fish-es. 

Je-sus bade the twelve have the crowd seat 
them-selves in rows on the green grass. Then he 
took the five loaves and the two fish-es, and gave 
thanks to God for them. And he broke the loaves, 
and the fish-es, and the twelve gave them piece by 
piece to the crowd, till all had had their fill. 

When the feast was at an end there was e-nough 
bread and fish left to fill twelve bas-kets. 

Then Je-sus bade the twelve dis-ci-ples get in-to 
the boat and go back to Ca-per-na-um. 

And when the crowd had left him he went up 
on a high hill to pray. And when night came on he 
was there with none but God near him, 



Jesus Brings the Dead to Life, 



The twelve were in the boat, out in the midst of 
the sea. 

Their oars were of no use, for the wind blew hard 
the wrong way, and drove 



them back 
course, and 




from their 
made the 
waves toss the boat here 
and there. 

Je-sus could see it all 
from his high place on the 
hill, and in the night he 
went down to the shore 
and walked out on the 
sea. 

When the twelve saw 
him they were in a great 
fright, for they thought it 
was a ghost, and they cried 
out in their fear. 

Je-sus said, Be of good 
cheer. It is I. 

Pe-ter spoke from the 
boat, and said, Lord, if it ^^^ - 
be thou, bid me come to 
thee on the sea. Je-sus said to him, Gome, and Pe- 
ter came out of the boat and walked on the waves 
to go to Je-sus. But when he heard the noise of 



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the wind, and saw the waves dash all round him, he 
was in great fear; and as he felt him-self sink he 

cried out, Lord, 
save me. 

Je-sus put 
forth his hand 
and caught him, 
and said to him, 
O thou of lit-tle 
faith, why didst 
thou doubt me? 
When Je-sus 
and Pe-ter came 
in-to the boat the 
wind was still, 
and the twelve 
were soon on the 
shore they had 
set out to reach. 
Then they fell 
at his feet, and 
said, It is true 
that thou art the 
Son of God. 

As soon as it was known where Je-sus was, 
crowds came from all the towns that were near, and 
brought their sick in their beds that he might make 




PE-TER WALK-ING ON THE WA-TER. 




CHRIST WALK-ING ON THE SEA. 



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them well. And when he went through the large 
and small towns they laid the sick in the streets, and 
begged that they might touch but the hem of his 
robe. And at a touch they were all made well. 



CHAPTER XI. 

JESUS HEALS THE SICK. HIS FORM CHANGED ON THE 

MOUNT. 

Je-sus went to Ca-per-na-um and taught the Jews 
there. But all that he said made them hate him the 
more, and their chief priests did all they could to 
prove that he was not the Christ who was to save 
them. They thought that he who was to be the 
King of the Jews would come in rich robes, and 
with all the signs of high rank. So they would have 
naught to do with a poor man like Je-sus. 

It made Je-sus sad to have the Jews turn from 
him, and he left them, and went out to the towns of 
Tyre and Si-don, which were on the sea-coast. And 
no Jews dwelt there. 

Yet a wo-'man, as soon as she heard he was there, 
came out and cried to him, O Lord, thou Son of 
Da-vid, come and heal my child, for she has gone 
mad. 



Jesus Heals the Sick. 

Je-sus said he was sent to none but the Jews, 
This he did to try her faith, for she was not a Jew. 

But she fell at his feet, and cried out, Lord help 
me! 




THE TRANS-FIG-U-RA-TION OF CHRIST. 



Je-sus said to her, Great is thy faith; thy child is 
made well. 

And when she went back to her house she found 
her child had been made well at the same hour that 
she spoke to Je-sus. 

Then Je-sus and the twelve went down near the 



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Sea of Gal-i-lee once more. And they brought to 
Je-sus a man that was deaf, and who could not speak 
plain, that he might lay his hands on him and heal 
him. 

Je-sus took him out of the crowd, and touched 
his ears and tongue, and at once the man was made 
well, so that he could both hear and speak. 

And crowds came to him, and brought those that 
were lame, blind, and dumb, and laid them down at 
the feet of Je-sus, that he might heal them. And 
Je-sus healed them all, so that the crowds were in a 
maze when they saw the dumb speak, the lame walk, 
and the blind see ; and they gave praise and thanks 
to God for what he had done. 

At the end of six days Je-sus took Pe-ter, James, 
and John, and went up on a high mount to pray. 
And while he was there a great change took place in 
him. His face shone as the sun, and his clothes were 
as white as snow, and the light shone through them. 

And Mo-ses and E-li-jah came to him, and 
spoke with him. 

Pe-ter said, Lord, it is good for us to be here. 
Let us make three tents, one for thee, and one for 
Mo-ses, and one for E-li-jah. 

While he yet spoke there came a bright cloud, 
out of which a voice spoke and said, This is my dear 
Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. 



Jesus Heals the Sick. 



When Pe-ter, James, and John heard it, they 
bowed down to the ground, and were in great fear. 

Je-sus came and touched them, and said, Rise. 
Fearnot. Andwhen 
they raised their eyes 
they saw no one but 
Je-sus. 

As they came 
down from the 
mount, Je-sus bade 
them tell no one what 
they had seen till he 
rose from the dead. 

The next day, 
when they had come 
down from the 
mount, there was a 
great crowd to see 
Je-sus. And one 
man knelt at his feet 
and said, Lord, 
help my son, for he 
has fits, and the 
fiends in him vex him so that he falls in the hre and 
in the wa-ter. I took him to those whom thou hast 
taught to heal, to see if they could cure him ; and 
they could not. 

Y. F. B.— 22 




PE-TER AND THE TRIB-UTE MON-EY. 



* History of the New Testament. 

Je-sus said, Bring him to me. And they brought 
him ; and he fell on the ground and foamed at the 
mouth. 

Je-sus said to the fiend that was in the young 
man, Come out of him and vex him no more. 

And the fiend cried with a loud voice, and shook 
the young man, and came out of him, but left him 
weak, like one dead. And those who stood near 
thought he was dead. But Je-sus took him by the 
hand and raised him, and he stood on his feet and 
was well from that hour. 

Then Je-sus and the twelve went to Ca-per-na-um. 
And when they were in the house Je-sus said, Why 
were ye at such strife in your talk on the way? 

And for shame they held their peace, for their 
talk had been as to which should have the high-est 
place in the realm where Je-sus was to reign as King 
of the Jews. 

When they had sat down Je-sus said to the 
twelve, He who seeks to be first shall be last of all. 

And he took a child and set it in the midst of 
them, and told them that they must put pride 
out of their hearts and be as meek as a child. For 
he who thought not of him-self, but did God's will 
as a child does the will of its fa-ther, the same should 
be great in the realm which Je-sus was to set up. 

Je-sus taught there for some time, and then set 



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out for Je-ru-sa-lem. And the twelve went with 
him. 

When they were come to Ca-per-na-um, those that 
took in the trib-ute mon-ey came to Pe-ter and said, 
Doth not your mas-ter pay trib-ute. 

This was the tax the Jews had to pay to Ce-sar 
as the price of peace. 

Pe-ter said, Yes. And when he came in-to the 
house Je-sus met him and said. 

Of whom do the kings of the earth take cus-tom 
or trib-ute ? of their own chil-dren or of stran-gers ? 

Pe-ter said, Of stran-gers. 

Je-sus said, Then are the chil-dren free. But 
lest we should give cause for blame, go thou to the 
sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first 
comes up. In its mouth thou shalt find a piece of 
mon-ey. Take that and give it to them for me and 
thee. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THE GOOD SAMARITAN. MARTHA AND MARY. THE 

MAN BORN BLIND. 

Je-sus went to the great church in Je-ru-sa-lem, 
and the Jews came there in crowds to hear him 
preach, and to find fault with him. 



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And a man of law stood up and said, What must 
I do to be saved? Je-sus said to him, What does 
the law say? How dost thou read it ? The man of 
law said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
strength, and thy neigh-bor as thy-self. 

Je-sus said to him, That is right. Do this, and 
thou shalt be saved. 

The man of law said, Who is my neigh-bor? 
Then Je-sus spoke in this way, and said, A man 
went down from Je-ru-sa-lem to Je-ri-cho. And the 
thieves fell on him, tore off his clothes and beat him, 
then went on their way and left him half dead on the 
ground. 

By chance there came a priest that way, and 
when he saw the poor man he went by him on the 
oth-er side of the road. 

Then one of the tribe of Le-vi came to the place, 
and took a look at the poor man, and went by on 
the oth-er side of the road. 

By and by a Sa-mar-i-tan — that is, a man from 
Sa-ma-ri-a — came that way, and as soon as he saw 
the poor man on the ground his heart was moved, 
and he made haste to help him. 

Now the Jews did not like the Sa-mar-i-tans, and 
would have nought to do with them. And those to 
whom Je-sus spoke would not have thought it strange 



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if this man from Sa-ma-ri-a had left the Jew to die 
by the road-side. 

But this he could not do, for he had a kind 
heart. He went to the 
poor man and bound 
up his wounds, and set 
him on his own beast, 
and brought him to an 
inn, and took care of 
him. 

And the next day 
when he left he took 
out two pence and gave 
them to the host, and 
said to him, Take care 
of him; and if thou hast 
need to spend more 
than that, when I come 
back I will pay thee. 

Which now of 
these three dost thou 
think was neigh-bor to 
him who fell a-mong 
thieves ? 

And the man of law said, He that was kind to 
hi 




THE GOOD SAM-AR-I-TAN. 



im. 



Then said Je-sus, Go, and do thou like-wise; that 



History of the New Testament. 

is, to those who need help go and do as the Sa-mar- 
i-tan did. 

Je-suscame to Beth-a-ny — a small place near Je- 
ru-sa-lem — and a wo-man, whose name was Mar-tha, 
asked him to come to her house. She had a sis-ter, 
whose name was Ma-ry, and while Mar-tha went to 
get things and to cook, and sweep, and dust, Ma-ry 
sat down at the feet of Je-sus to hear him talk. 

This did not please Mar-tha, who felt that she 
had too much work to do; so she came to Je-sus and 
said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sis-ter hath 
left me to do the work a-lone? Bid her there-fore 
come and help me. 

Je-sus said to her, Mar-tha, Mar-tha, thou art 
full of care and vexed a-bout more things than there 
is need of. There is need of but one thing, and 
Ma-ry hath made choice of that which is good, and 
no one shall take it from her. 

He meant that Ma-ry chose to care for her soul, 
and to be taught how to live in this world, so that 
she might fit her-self for the next one. And the one 
thing we all need is a new heart, full of love to Je- 
sus and glad to do his work. 

One of the twelve said to Je-sus, Teach us how 
to pray, as John taught those who were with him. 
Je-sus taught them to pray thus: 

Our Fa-ther, who art in heav-en, Hal-low-ed be 



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thy name, Thy king-dom come, Thy will be done on 
earth as it is in heav-en, Give us this day our dai-ly 
bread, and for- 
give us our 
debts as we 
for-give our 
debt-ors. Lead 
us not in-to 
temp-ta-tion 
but de-liv-er us 
from e-vil, for 
thine is the 
king-dom, the 
pow-er, and 
the glo-ry, both ' 
now and for- 
ev-er. A-men. 
Then he 
said, Which 
of you shall 
have a friend 
and shall go to 
him at mid- 
night and say 
to him, Friend, 
lend me three loaves : for a friend of mine has come 
a long way to see me, and I have no food for him. 




MA-RY AND MAR-THA. 



History of the New Testament. 

And he who is in-side shall say, The door is now 
shut, and my chil-dren are with me in bed; I can-not 
rise and give thee. 

I say to you, though he will not rise and give him 
be-cause he is his friend, yet if he keeps on and begs 
hard he will rise and give him as much as he needs. 
And I say to you, Ask God for what you need and 
he will give it to you. Seek and ye shall find. 
Knock, and the door that is shut will o-pen for you. 

For, he said, if a child of yours should ask for 
bread, would you give him a stone ? or should he ask 
for a fish, would you give him a snake? If ye then, 
who are full of sin, know how to give good gifts to 
your chil-dren, how much more sure is it that God 
will give good things to those who ask him. 

Je-sus chose three-score and ten more men and 
sent them out, two and two, in-to all the towns where 
he meant to come, that they might heal the sick and 
preach the good news. And they did as he told 
them, and came back full of joy at the great things 
they had done through the strength that he gave 
them. Je-sus told them that they should feel more 
joy that their names were set down in the Book of 
Life — God's book — where he keeps the names of all 
those who love him, and do his will on earth. 

The Feast of Tents was near at hand, and Je- 
sus said to the twelve, Go ye up to this feast, but I 




THE SEND-ING OUT OF THE SEV-EN-TY. 



History of the New Testament. 

will not go now, for my time has not yet come. So 
he staid in Gal-i-lee for a-while. Then he went up 
to Je-ru-sa-lem, but did not make him-self known 
lest the Jews should kill him. 

The Jews sought for him at the feast, and 
said, Where is he? And there was much talk of 
him. Some said, He is a good man; and some 
said, No, he is a fraud. But no one dared to speak 
well of him out loud for fear of the Jews. 

In the midst of the feast Je-sus went up in-to the 
church and taught there. And he said, Ye both 
know me, and ye know from whence I came. I am 
not come to please my-self, but to do the will of him 
that sent me, whom ye know not. But I know him, 
for I have come from him, and he hath sent me. 

Then they made a rush for him, but no man laid 
hands on him, for his hour had not yet come. God 
had set the time for him to die, and no one could 
harm him till that day and hour. 

As he came from the church he saw a man who 
had been blind from his birth. Je-sus spat on the 
ground and made clay of the moist earth, and spread 
the clay on the eyes of the blind man. 

Then he told him to go and wash in a pool that 
was near. And he went, and did as he was told, 
and his sight came back to him. 

And his friends, and those who had seen him 



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and 
like 



when he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat 
begged ? 

Some said, This is he; and some said, He is 
him; but the man 
said, I am he. 

Then they said 
to him, How were 
thine eyes cured? 

And he said, A 
man, by the name of 
Je-sus, made clay and 
spread it on my eyes, 
and said to me, Go to 
the pool of Si-lo-am 
and wash ; and I went 
and did so, 
sight came 
me. 

Then they said to 
him, Where is he? 
He said, I know not. 

It was on the day 
of rest that Je-sus 
made the clay, and 
the Phar-i-sees, when they heard of it, said, This 
man is not of God, for he does not keep the day of 
rest. And they went to the fa-ther and the mo-ther 



and my 
back to 




" ONCE I WAS BLIND, BUT NOW I SEE." 



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of the man who had been blind, and said to them, 
Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How 
then doth he now see? 

His pa-rents said, We know that this is our son, 
and that he was born blind ; but by what means he 
now sees, or who hath cured his eyes, we know not. 
He is of age, ask him; he shall speak for him-self. 

They spoke thus for fear of the Jews; for the 
Jews had made it known that all those who said that 
Je-sus was the Christ should be put out of the 
church. So they said, He is of age; ask him. 

Then the Phar-i-sees went to the man that was 
blind, and said to him, Give God the praise, for we 
know that this man is a man of sin. 

He said to them, What he is I know not; but 
this I do know, that once I was blind, but now I see. 

Then they said to him, What did he do to thee? 
How did he cure thine eyes? 

The man said, I have told you be-fore, and ye 
did not hear. Why would ye hear me say it once 
more? Would ye be of his band? 

Then they spoke harsh words to him, and said, 
Thou dost take sides with him, but we stand by Mo- 
ses. We know that God spoke to Mo-ses ; but as 
for this fel-low, we know not who sent him. 

The man said, It is strange that ye know not 
who sent him, when he has brought sight to my blind 



Jesus, the Good Shepherd. 

eyes. Since the world was made we have not heard 
of a man who could give sight to one that was born 
blind. If this man were not of God he could not 
have done this thing. 

The Phar-i-sees were full of wrath, and said to the 
man, Thou hast dwelt in sin from thy birth, and 
wilt thou try to teach us ? And they drove him out 
of the church. 

Je-sus heard of it, and when he found the man 
he said to him, Have you faith in the son of God? 

He said, Who is he, Lord, that I may put my 
trust in him? 

Je-sus said, It is he that talks with thee. 

The man said, Lord, I know that it must be so; 
and he fell at the feet of Je-sus, and gave praise to him. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

JESUS, THE GOOD SHEPHERD. LAZARUS BROUGHT TO LIFE. 

THE FEAST, AND THOSE WHO WERE BID TO IT. 

Je-sus said to those whom he taught, I am the 
good shep-herd. The good shep-herd will give his 
life for the sheep. But he that is hired, and who 
does not own the sheep, when he sees the wolf 
will leave the sheep and run to save his own life. 



History of the New Testament. 

Then the wolf lays hold of the sheep, and puts the 
flock to flight. He who is hired flees from the sheep, 
be-cause he does not care for them. 

I am the good shep-herd and know my sheep, 
and my sheep know me. And I will lay down my 
life for the sheep. 

Some sheep I have which are not of this fold; 
they too must I bring in, and they shall hear my 
voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shep-herd. 

The Jews found fault with his words, and some 
said, He talks like a mad-man. 

As Je-sus went out on the porch at one side of 
the great church that He-rod built, the Jews came 
round him and said, How long wilt thou keep us in 
doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us so in plain 
words. 

Je-sus said, I told you, and ye had no faith in 
me. The works that I do, in God's name, are proof 
that I am sent from him. But ye do not trust me 
be-cause ye are not my sheep. My sheep hear my 
voice, and I know them, and they go the way I lead. 
They shall not be lost, and no one shall take them 
from me. For God gave them to me, and no one 
can take them out of his hand. I and my Fa-ther 
are one. 

Then the Jews took up stones to stone him, be- 
cause he said that he was God. 



Jesus, the Good Shepherd. 



But he fled from them, and went out of Je-ru-sa- 
lem to a place near the Jor-dan, where crowds came 
to hear him, and to be taught of him. And not a 
few gave their hearts to Je-sus, and sought to lead 
new lives ; to do right 
and to be good. 

Ma-ry and Mar- 
tha, who lived at 
Beth-a-ny, had a bro- 
ther whose name was 
Laz-a-rus, and he was 
sick. So his sis-ters 
sent word to Je-sus, 
but though he was 
fond of these friends 
at Beth-a-ny he made 
no haste to go to 
them, but staid two 
days in the place 
where he was. 

Then he said to 
the twelve, Let us go 
back to Beth-a-ny, for 
my friend Laz-a-rus sleeps, and I must go and 
wake him. 

He meant that Laz-a-rus was dead, and that he 
must go and bring him back to life. 




THE LOST SHEEP. 



History of the New Testament. 

But the twelve thought that he meant that Laz- 
a-rus slept, as we do when we take our rest. 

Now Beth-a-ny was near Je-ru-sa-lem, and a 
crowd of Jews had gone there to weep with Ma-ry 
and Mar-tha. As soon as Mar-tha heard that Je- 
sus was near she ran out to meet him; but Ma-ry 
sat still in the house. And Mar-tha said to Je-sus, 
If thou hadst been here my bro-ther would not have 
died. But I know that e-ven now what thou wilt 
ask of God he will give it thee. 

Je-sus said to her, Thy bro-ther shall rise a-gain. 

Mar-tha said, I know that he shall rise at the 
last day. 

Then Mar-tha went back to the house and said 
to Ma-ry, The mas-ter has come and asks for thee. 

Ma-ry rose at once and went out to meet him; 
and those who saw her leave the house, said, She 
goes to the grave to weep there. 

As soon as Ma-ry came to the place where Je- 
sus was, she fell at his feet and said, Lord, if thou 
hadst been here my bro-ther had not died. 

When Je-sus saw her tears, and the tears of those 
who wept with her, he was full of grief, and said, 
Where have ye laid him ? 

They said, Lord, come and see. 

Je-sus wept. And when the Jews saw it they 
said, See how he loved him. And some of them 



Jesus, the Good Shepherd. 



said, Could not this man, who gave the blind their 
sight, have saved Laz-a-rus from death ? 

Je-sus came to the grave. It was a cave, and a 
stone lay at the mouth 
of it. 

Je-sus said, Take a- 
way the stone. Mar-tha 
said to him, By this 
time he must be in a 
bad state, for he has 
been dead four days. 

Je-sus said to her, 
Did I not tell thee that 
if thou hadst faith thou 
should see what great 
things God could do? 

Then they took the 
stone from the place 
where the dead was laid. 
And Je-sus cried out 
with a loud voice, Laz- 
a-rus, come forth. 

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand 
and foot in his grave clothes, and with his head tied 
up in a cloth. Je-sus said, Loose him and let 
him go. 

And some of the Jews who came to be with Ma- 

Y. F. B.— 23 




LAZ-A-RUS RAISED FROM THE DEAD. 



History of the New Testament. 

ry and Mar-tha, and saw this great thing which Je- 
sus did, had faith in him that he was the son of God. 
But some of them went to the Phar-i-sees and told 
what he had done. 

And the Phar-i-sees and chief priests met to talk 
of Je-sus and his deeds. They said it would not do 
to let him go on in this way, for he would raise up 
a host of friends who would make him their king. 
That would not please the Ce-sar of Rome, who 
would come and take Je-ru-sa-lem from them, and 
drive the Jews out of the land. 

So from that time they sought out some way in 
which they could put Je-sus to death. 

As Je-sus went out of the church where he had 
taught on the Lord's day, he saw a wo-man all bent 
up in a heap. She had been so for near a score of 
years, and could not lift her-self up. 

Je-sus said to her, Wo-man, thou art made well. 
And he laid his hands on her, and she rose at once, 
and stood up straight, and gave thanks to God 

And the chief man of the church was wroth with 
Je-sus, because he had done this deed on the day of 
rest He said to those in the church, There are six 
days in which men ought to work ; if you want to be 
cured come then, and not on the day of rest. 

Je-sus spoke, and said, Doth not each one of you 
loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him 



Mi 



¥ I 







THE GREAT SUP-PER. 



History of the New Testament. 

off to drink ? And if it is right to do for the ox and 
the ass what they need, is it not right that this 
wom-an should be made well on the day of rest ? 

And when he said this his foes hung their heads 
with shame, and all his friends were glad for the 
great deeds that were done by him. 

One Lord's day he went to the house of one of 
the chief Phar-i-sees, and while there he spoke of a 
man who made a great feast. 

And when it was all spread out, he sent his ser- 
vant out to bid those come in whom he had asked 
to the feast. 

And they, all cried out that they could not come. 
The first one said, I have bought a piece of ground, 
and must go and see it; so pray do not look for me. 

The next one said, I have bought five yoke of 
ox-en, and must go and try them ; so pray do not 
look for me. 

The next one said, I have just ta-ken a wife, and 
so can-not come. 

So the ser-vant came back to the house and told 
his mas-ter these things. Then the rich man was 
in a rage, and he said to his ser-vant, Make haste 
and go out through the streets and lanes of the town, 
and bring in the poor, the lame, and the halt and 
the blind. 

And the ser-vant did as he was told. Then he 



Jesus, the Good Shepherd. 

came and said, Lord, I have done as thou didst bid 
me, and yet there is room for more. 

The lord of the house then said, Go out through 
the high-ways, and down by the hedge-rows, and 
make the folks come in, that my house may be full; 
for none of those who were first called shall taste of 
my feast. 

The man who spreads the feast is God. The 
feast is the good news — that Christ will save us from 
our sins. The ser-vant means those who preach, and 
urge men to come to Christ. Those who were first 
bid to the feast and would not come mean the Jews. 
And to bid the poor, the lame, and the blind come 
in-to the feast, means that the poor and the sick are 
to be saved as well as the rich and the great. 

Great crowds drew near to Je-sus, and he told 
them that though they might come and hear him 
preach, if they did not care for him in their hearts 
they were not true friends, and could not be of his 
band. They must care more for him than for all 
else in the whole world; and must bear his cross — 
that is, they must do what is right, as Je-sus did. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

THE PRODIGAL SON. THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLI- 
CAN. BABES BROUGHT TO JESUS. ZACCHEUS 

CLIMBS A TREE. 

Je-sus said, There was a rich man who had two 
sons. One of them was wild, and fond of feasts and 
of gay times, and did not care for his home, or the 
life that he led there. So he went to his fa-ther and 
said, Give me, I pray thee, my share of the wealth 
thou hast laid up for thine heirs, that I may spend 
it as I choose. And he took his share, and went far 
from home, and led a gay life. 

And when he had spent all he had, there came 
a dearth in that land, and he was in great want. 

That he might not starve, he went out in search 
of work, and a man hired him, and sent him in the 
fields to feed swine. And so great was his need of 
some-thing to eat that he would have been glad to 
have had some of the coarse food with which the 
swine were fed, but none of the men gave it to him. 

Then he said to him-self, The men my fa-ther 
hires have more food than they can eat, while I 
starve for want of what they can well spare. I will 



The Prodigal Son. 



rise and go to my fa-ther, and will say to him, Fa- 
ther, I have done wrong in thy sight, and in the 
sight of God, and have no more right to be called 
thy son. Let me come 
back to thy house, and 
be as a ser-vant. 

So he rose and went 
to his fa-ther. And 
while he was yet a long 
way off his fa-ther saw 
him, and ran and fell on 
his neck and kissed him. 

And the son said to 
him, Fa-ther I have 
done wrong in thy sight, 
and in the sight of God, 
and have no more right 
to be called thy son. 

But the fa-ther said 
to his hired men, Bring 
forth the best robe and 
put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes 
on his feet. And bring in the fat-ted calf, and kill it, 
and let us eat and be glad. For this my son was dead, 
and now lives ; he was lost and is found. And tears 
and sighs gave place to smiles and songs of joy. 

Now the son who had staid at home and kept 




THE PROD-I-GAL'S RE-TURN. 



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his share of wealth that his fa-ther gave him, was at 
work in the field. And as he came near the house 
he heard the gay sounds, and called one of the hired 
men to him and asked what it all meant. 

The man said, Thy broth-er is here, and thy fa- 
ther has made a feast, so great is his joy to have him 
back safe and sound. And the young man was in 
a rage, and would not go in the house ; so his fa-ther 
came out and coaxed him. 

And he said to his fa-ther, For years and years 
have I been true to thee and broke none of thy laws. 
But thou didst not kill a kid for me that I might 
make a feast for my friends. But as soon as this thy 
son was come, who spent thy wealth in ways of sin, 
thou didst kill the fat-ted calf for him. 

And the fa-ther said, My son, I have loved thee 
all thy life, and all that I own is the same as if it was 
thine; yet it was right that we should be glad and 
sing songs of joy, for this thy broth-er was dead and 
now lives ; he was lost and is found. 

In this way Je-sus taught those who found fault 
with him, that God was glad to have men turn from 
their sins and come back to him. He loved them 
in spite of their sins, and when they made up their 
minds to leave them, and to do what was right, God 
met them more than halfway, and gave peace and 
joy to their hearts. 



The Prodigal Son. 



A prod-i-gal is one who wastes all that he has. 

Then Je-sus spoke to those who were proud, and 
felt as if no one 
else was quite as 
good as they 
were. And he 
said, Two men 
went up in-to 
the church to 
pray. One of 
them — a Phar- 
i-see — chose a 
place where all 
could see him ; 
and he stood up 
and said, God 
I thank thee 
that I am not 
like oth-er men. 
I fast twice a 
week, and I give 
to the aid of the 
church a tenth 
part of all I own. 

But the other man stood far off, and bowed his 
head, and beat on his breast as he said, God help 
me, and for-give my sins. And God for-gave this 




THE PHAR-I-SEE. 



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man more than he did the oth-er, for those that are 
proud shall be brought low, and those who are meek 
shall be set in a high place. 

Then babes were brought to Je-sus that he might 
lay his hands on them and bless them. And when 
the twelve saw it, they tried to keep them back, and 
would have sent them a-way. 

This did not please Je-sus, and he said to them, 
Let the chil-dren come to me, and do not hold them 
back, for of such is the king-dom of God. 

He meant that no one could have a home with 
God who was not as good, and sweet, and pure as a 
young child, who hates sin, and loves God with his 
whole heart. • Then Je-sus took the babes up in 
his arms, and laid his hands on them, and blest 
them. 

And as he and the twelve went on their way, 
Je-sus told them that they were to go to Je-ru-sa-lem 
that those things might be done to him of which the 
seers and proph-ets spoke. He said that the Jews 
would beat him and put him to death, but that he 
should rise from the dead on the third day. 

None of the twelve knew what he meant by 
these things, but thought he would set up his throne 
on earth, and reign as kings do in this world, and 
that each one of them would have a place of high 
rank near his throne. 




SUF-FKR UT-TLE CHIL-DREN TO COME UN-TQ M&" 



History of the New Testament. 

When it was known that they were to pass 
through Jer-i-cho a great crowd came out to meet 
them. And there was a rich man there who had a 
great wish to see Je-sus. And his name was Zac- 
che-us. He was so small that he was quite hid by 
the crowd, and he was in great fear that Je-sus 
would pass and he not see him. So he ran on a- 
head of the crowd ; and got up in-to a tree, from 
whence he could look down at this great man of 
whom he had heard. 

And when Je-sus came to the place he raised 
his eyes and saw him, and said to him, Zac-che-us, 
make haste and come down, for to-day I must stay 
at thy house. • 

And Zac-che-us came down and went with Je- 
sus, and was glad to have him as a guest. And 
there was quite a stir in the crowd, and the Jews 
found fault with Je-sus, and said that he had gone to 
be a guest with a man that was full of sin. 

But Zac-che-us told Je-sus that if he had done 
wrong he would do so no more, but would try to be 
just to all men and to lead a good and pure life. 

And when Je-sus saw that he meant what he 
said, he told Zac-che-us that God would blot out the 
sins of the past, and help him to lead a new life. 
For he said that he had come to the world to seek 
those who had gone wrong, and were like lost sheep, 



The Feast of the Passover. 

and to save them and bring them to his home in 
the sky, where there was no such thing as sin or 
death. 



CHAPTER XV. 

THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER. THE SUPPER AT BETHANY. 

Now the great least of tne Pass-o-ver was near, 
and a great crowd of Jews went up to Je-ru-sa-lem 
to keep it. It had been kept since the days of Mo- 
ses, when God smote the first-born of E-gypt, and 
passed o-ver the homes of the Jews. 

And those who were on the watch for Je-sus to 
do him harm, said, as they stood in the church, What 
think ye? will he not come to the feast? For the 
chief priests and Phar-i-sees had sent out word that 
those who knew where Je-sus was should make it 
known, that they might take him. 

Now six days be-fore the great feast, Je-sus came 
to Beth-a-ny, where Laz-a-rus was whom he had 
raised from the dead. Some of the Jews knew that 
he was there, and they came not so much to see Je- 
sus as to see Laz-a-rus. 

And the chief priests sought for a way to put 
Laz-a-rus to death, as some of the Jews, when they 



History of the New Testament. 

saw him had faith in Je-sus, and gave their hearts to 
him. 

Je-sus left Beth-a-ny to go to Je-ru-sa-lem, and 
on the way the mo-ther of Zeb-e-dee's chil-dren 
came to Je-sus and begged that he would do one 
thing for her. 

Je-sus said to her, What wilt thou? She said to 
him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one 
on thy right hand, and the oth-er on thy left, in thy 
king-dom. 

Je-sus said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye 
drink of the cup that I drink of, and bear all that I 
shall have to bear? They said, We can. Je-sus 
said, Ye shall drink of the cup, and bear the cross, 
but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not 
mine to give; but God gives it to those who are fit 
for it. 

When the ten heard this thev were wroth with 
James and John. But Je-sus told them that those 
who sought to rule would be made to serve, and 
that he him-self came not to be served by men but 
to lay down his life for them. 

And when they came to the Mount of Ol-ives, 
Je-sus sent two of the twelve, and said to them, Go 
to the small town which is near you, and you shall 
find there a colt tied, on which no man has rode. 
Loose him, and bring him to me, and if you should 




CHRIST AND THE MOTH-ER OF ZEB-E-DEb's CHIL-DREN. 



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be asked, Why do ye this? Say that the Lord hath 
need of him, and he will be sent at once. 

The men did 
as Je-sus told 
them,and brought 
the young ass and 
put their robes on 
his back, and Je- 
sus sat on him. 

And as he 
went out on the 
road the crowds 
on their way to 
the feast spread 
their robes be-fore 
him, and strewed 
the way with 
green boughs 
from the palm 
trees. And they 
waved palms in 
their hands, and 
made the air ring 
with shouts of, 
Ho-san-na to the 
son of Da-vid! Blest is he that comes in the name 
of the Lord! Ho-san-na in the high-est! 




CHIL-DREN IN THE TEM-PLE CRY-ING, " HO-SAN-NA TO THE SON 
OF DA-VID." 




Y. F. B.— 24 



THE EN-TRY INTO JER-U-SA-LEM. 



History of the New Testament. 

This was the way in which they used to meet 
and greet their kings, and they thought to please 
Je-sus so that he would pay them back when he set 
up his throne on earth. For the most of them did 
not love him in their hearts. 

As Je-sus came near to Je-ru-sa-lem he looked 
at it, and wept when he thought of the grief that the 
Jews were to know. 

And he taught each day in the church at 
Je-ru-sa-lem, but at night he went to Beth-a-ny to 
sleep. 

One morn as he was on his way back to Je-ru- 
sa-lem he saw a fig-tree by the road side, and went to 
it to pluck some of the fruit. But he found on it 
naught but leaves. Then he said to it, Let no more 
figs grow on this tree. 

The next day when the twelve went by they saw 
that the fig-tree was dried up from its roots. 

And they thought of the words that Je-sus spoke, 
and said, How soon has the fig-tree dried up! 

Je-sus told them that they might do as much and 
more than he had done to the fig-tree, if they had 
faith in God, and sought strength from him. 

Then he spoke to them in this way : There was 
a rich man who laid out a vine-yard, and dug a ditch 
round it to keep wild beasts and thieves a-way, and 
made a wine press, and let the place out to men who 




CHRIST WEEP-ING OVER JER-U-SA-I.EM. 



History of t>he New Testament. 

were to give him part of the fruit. Then he went 
off to a far land. 

When the time had come for the fruit to be ripe he 
sent one of his ser-vants to the men who had charge 
of the vine-yard, that he might bring back his share 
of the grapes. 

But the men took the ser-vant and beat him, and 
sent him off with no fruit in his hands. 

Then the one who owned the place sent once 
more, and the bad men threw stones at this ser-vant, 
and hurt him so in the head that he was like to die. 
The next one they killed, and so things went on. 

Now the rich man, who owned the place, had 
but one son, who was most dear to him. And he 
said, If I send my son to them they will be kind to 
him, and treat him well. 

But as soon as the bad men saw him they said, 
This is the heir; let us kill him, and all that is his 
shall be ours. And they took him and put him to 
death, and cast him out of the vine-yard. 

The vine-yard is the world. The one who owns 
it is God. The bad men are the Jews; he had 
taught them his laws, and they had vowed to keep 
them. When they did not do it, God sent priests 
and wise men to try and make them do what was 
right. These were stoned, and not a few were slain. 

At last he sent his own dear son, Je-sus. Now 



The Feast of the Passover. 



they meant to kill him, as the bad men had killed 
the heir of the vine-yard. 

When the Jews heard this talk they knew that 
Je-sus spoke of them, and 
they were wroth with him, 
and in haste to kill him. 

One day, on his way 
out of the tem-ple, Je-sus 
sat down near the box in 
which mon-ey was put for 
the use of the church. 
And he saw that the rich 
put in large sums. And 
there came a poor wid-ow 
who threw in two mites, 
which make a far-thing, 
or the fourth of a pen-ny. 

Je-sus said to the 
twelve, This poor wid-ow has cast in more than all 
the rest. For they had so much they did not miss 
what they gave ; while she, who was poor and in 
want, did cast in all that she had. 




THE WID-OW'S MITE. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

PARABLES. 

A par-a-ble is a sto-ry of some-thing in real life 
that will fix in our minds and hearts the truth it is 
meant to teach. 

Je-sus said the king-dom of heav-en was like the 
mas-ter of a house who went out at morn to hire 
men to work in his vine-yard. 

The price was fixed at a pen-ny a day, and those 
who would work for that were sent out to the vine- 
yard. 

At nine o'clock in the day he went out and saw 
men in the mar-ket place who were out of work, 
and he said to them, Go ye to the vine-yard, and I 
will pay you what is right. And they went their 
way. 

He went out at noon, and at three o'clock, and 
found more men whom he sent to work in his vine- 
yard. Later in the day, when it was near six 
o'clock, he went out and saw more men, to whom he 
said, Why stand ye here all the day i-dle? 

They said to him, Be-cause no man has hired us. 



Parables. 



He said, Go ye in-to the vine-yard, and what is 
right I will give thee. 

' So when night came, the lord of the vine-yard 
had the work-men 
called in, and each one 
was paid a pen-ny. 

When the first 
came they thought 
they should have 
more, and when they 
were paid but a pen- 
ny they found fault, 
and said, These last 
have wrought but one 
hour, and thou hast 
paid them the same 
as us who have born 
the toil and heat of 
the day. 

The mas-ter said, 
Friend, I do thee no 
wrong. Didst thou 
not say thou wouldst 
work for me for a 
pen-ny a day ? Take what is thine, and go thy way; 
for I have a right to do as I will with mine own. 
And the last shall be first and the first last. 




LA-BOR-ERS IN THE VINE- YARD. 



History of the New Testament. 

Je-sus told them a par-a-ble of ten maids who 
went out to meet the bride-groom. For in those 
days the man who was wed brought his bride home 
at night, and some of his friends used to go out to 
meet him. 

These ten maids had lit their lamps, and gone 
out to meet the bride-groom. But he did not come 
as soon as they thought he would, and as the hours 
went on they all fell a-sleep. 

Now five of these maids were wise, and five were 
not. The wise ones had brought oil with them, so 
that if their lamps should go out they could fill them. 
Those who were not wise had no oil but that which 
was in their lamps. 

At mid-night those who were on the watch cried 
out, Lo, the bride-groom comes! Go ye out to meet 
him. 

And the five wise maids rose at once, and went 
to work to trim their lamps. 

The five who were not wise, stood by and said, 
Give us of your oil, for our lamps have gone out. 

But the wise ones said, Not so; for we have no 
more than we need. Go ye and buy of those who 
have oil to sell. 

And while they went out to buy, the bride-groom 
came, and those who were in trim went in with him, 
and the door was shut. 



Parables. 



Then the five maids who had been out to buy 
oil came to the door, and cried out, Lord, Lord, let 
us in. But he said, I do not know you; and 
would not let them 



in. 




The bride-groom 
means Je-sus, who is 
to come at the last 
day. The ten maids 
are those who claim 
to love him, and who 
set out to meet him 
on that day. The 
oil is the love in our 
hearts, which burns 
and keeps our faith 
bright. We are to 
watch and wait for 
him, for we know 
not the day nor the 
hour when he will 
come. 

Je-sus came to 
the town of Beth-a-ny, and they made a sup-per for 
him there. In those days they did not sit at their 
meals on chairs as we do, but lay down on a couch, 
or lounge, as high as the ta-ble, so that they could 



THE FOOL-ISH VIR-GINS. 



History of the New Testament. 

rest on the left arm, and have the right hand and 
arm free to use. 

Mar-tha, Ma-ry, and Laz-a-rus were there, and 
while Je-sus sat at meat Ma-ry came with a flask of 
rich oil, that was worth a great price. And she broke 
the flask and poured the oil on the head of Je-sus. 

And there were some there who found fault with 
this great waste, and Ju-das — one of the twelve — said 
that the oil might have been sold for a large sum 
that would have done* the poor much good. 

Je-sus said, Blame her not. She has done a good 
work on me. For the poor you have with you 
all the time, and you may do them good when you 
choose. But you will not have me al-ways. 

Then Ju-das went to the chief priests and said, 
What will you give me if I bring you to the place 
where Je-sus is, so that you may take him? They 
said they would pay him well. And from that time 
he was on the watch to catch Je-sus a-lone. 

Je-sus said, There was a rich man, who wore fine 
clothes, and had great feasts spread for him each 
day. And a beg-gar named Laz-a-rus lay at his 
gate, full of sores ; but the rich man gave him not so 
much as a crumb. And the dogs came and licked 
his sores. 

The beg-gar died, and was borne by the an-gels 
to A-bra-ham's bo-som. The rich man died and was 



Parables. 



laid in the ground. And while in the pains of hell 
he raised his eyes and saw A-bra-ham with Laz-a-rus 
on his bo-som, and he cried and said, Fa-ther A-bra- 
ham, have mer- 
cy on me, and 
send Laz-a-rus 
that he may dip 
the tip of his fin- 
ger in wa-ter 
and cool my 
tongue, for this 
flame tor-ments 
me. 

But A-bra- 
ham said, Son, 
thou in thy life- 
time had thy 
good things, 
while Laz-a-rus 
was poor and 
had a hard lot. 
Now he has 
ease from all his 
pains and thou 
art in tor-ments. And be-tween us and you there 
is a great gulf; none can go from here to you, nor 
come from you to us. 




THE RICH MAN AND THE BEG-GAR. 



History of the New Testament. 

Then the rich man said, I pray thee then send 
him to my fa-ther's house, for I have five breth-ren, 
that he may speak to them, so that they come not to 
this place of tor-ment. 

A-bra-ham said, They have Mo-ses and the 
proph-ets, let them hear them. 

And the rich man said, Nay, fa-ther A-bra-ham; 
but if one went to them from the dead they will turn 
from their sins. 

And he said to him, If they hear not Mo-ses and 
the proph-ets they will not turn from their sins 
though one rose from the dead. 

A stew-ard is one who takes charge of a house or 
lands, pays bills, hires work-men, and is the mas- 
ter's right-hand man. 

Je-sus said, There was a rich man who had a 
stew-ard. And word was brought to him that this 
stew-ard made a bad use of his mas-ter's wealth. So 
the rich man said to him, What is this that I hear 
of thee? Let me know how thou hast done thy 
work, if thou wouldst keep thy place. 

The stew-ard said to him-self, What shall I do 
if my lord takes my place from me ? I can-not dig, 
and am too proud to beg. I have made up my 
mind to do some-thing that will put me on good 
terms with the rich, so that they will not close their 
doors to me should I lose my place here as stew-ard. 



Parables. 



So he sent for all those who were in debt to his 
lord. And he said to the first, How much dost thou 
owe? And he said, A hun-dred mea-sures of oil. 
The stew-ard said, 
Take thy bill, and sit 
down and write fif-ty. 

Then said he to 
the next one, How 
much dost thou owe? 
The man said, A 
hun-dred mea-sures of 
wheat. The stew-ard 
said to him, Take thy 
bill, and write four- 
score. 

And the lord 
praised the un-just 
stew-ard, for he 
thought he had done 
a wise thing. 

Je-sus said we were 
to use our wealth so 
as to make friends who will take us in their homes 
should we be-come poor. 

He that is faith-ful in small things is faith-ful al- 
so in large ones. And he that is un-just in th^ 
least, is un-just in much more. 




THE UN-JUST STEW-ARD., 



History of the New Testament. 

No man can serve two mas-ters. 

As Je-sus drew near to Je-ru-sa-lem those who 
were with him thought that the king-dom he spoke 
of was close at hand. 

He said to them, A rich man had to go to a far 
land, so he called his ten ser-vants that he might 
leave his goods in their charge. To the first one he 
gave five tal-ents. A tal-ent is a large sum in sil-ver. 
To the next he gave two tal-ents ; and to the third 
one. And he said to them, Make a good use of 
these gifts till I come back; and then went on his 
way. 

Then he that had five tal-ents went out and 
bought and sold and made five tal-ents more. And 
the one that had two did the same. But he that 
had one dug a hole in the earth and hid his lord's 
mon-ey. 

When the rich man came back he sent for his 
ser-vants that they might tell him what they had done 
while he was gone. So he that had had five tal-ents 
came and said, Lord, thou didst give me five tal- 
ents, and see — I have gained five more. 

His lord said to him, Well done, good and faith- 
ful ser-vant, thou hast been faith-ful o-ver a few 
things, I will make thee ru-ler o-ver ma-ny things; 
en-ter thou in-to the joy of thy lord. 

Then he that had two tal-ents came and said, 



Parables. 



Lord, thou didst give me two tal-ents and I have 
gained two more. 

His lord said to him, Well done, good and faith- 
ful ser-vant, 
thou hast been 
faith-ful o-ver 
a few things, 
I will make 
thee ru-lero-ver 
many things; 
en-terthouin-to 
the joy of thy 
lord. 

Then he 
who had but 
the one tal-ent 
came and said, 
Lord, I knew 
that thou wert 
a hard man, 
and didst reap 
where thou 
hast not sown, 
and gleaned 
where thou 
hast not strewn ; and, for fear I should lose it, 1 hid 
thy tal-ent in the earth, and here it is. 




THE TAL-ENTS. 



History of the New Testament. 

His lord said, Thou wick-ed and la-zy ser-vant, 
if thou didst know me to be such a harsh man thou 
shouldst have lent my mo-ney to those who would pay 
for its use, so that when I came back I should have 
my own and more with it. Take there-fore the one 
tal-ent from him and give it to him that hath ten tal- 
ents. For to him that hath much shall more be giv- 
en; but from him that hath not, shall be ta-ken 
a-way all that he hath. And cast ye the use-less 
ser-vant in-to out-er dark-ness, where shall be weep- 
ing and gnash-ing of teeth. 

Christ meant to teach by this that we were to 
make use of the gifts or tal-ents that God gave 
us, and add to them as much as we could. Then 
when we die God will say to us, Well done, and 
bid us share in the joy that our lord has in store 
for us. 

If we have but one gift we must use that and 
serve God with it, or at the last day he will take that 
from us, and we shall have no part in the joy of our 
lord. 

Je-sus said, The good news is like a king who 
made a wed-ding feast for his son. And he sent his 
ser-vants to call in those who were bid to the feast. 
But they would not come. Then he sent out more 
ser-vants to urge them to come to the wed-ding. 
But they made light of it, and went their ways, to 



Parables. 



their farms or shops; and some fell on the kings ser- 
vants and slew them. 

When the king heard of this he was wrotn, and 

he said to his fr - 'i^^^^ma^mmm amm 



ser-vants, Go 
ye out to the 
high-ways and 
bring in to the 
wed-ding those 
ye find there. 

And the 
ser-vants did 
so, and brought 
in both bad and 
good, so there 
was no lack of 
guests at the 
wed-ding. 

When the 
king came in to 
see the guests, 
he saw there a 
man who had 
not on a wed- 
ding gar-ment. 
And he said to him, Friend, why art thou here with- 
out a wed-ding gar-ment. And the man spoke not. 

Y. F. B.— 25 




WED-DING GAR-MENT. 



History of the New Testament. 



Then said the king to the ser-vants, Bind him 
hand and foot and take him off, and cast him in-to 

out-er dark-ness. For 
ma-ny are called but 
few are cho-sen. 

God is the king 
who made the feast 
for Je-sus Christ, his 
son, to which all are 
bid. The wed-ding 
gar-ment we need is 
a true heart, full of 
love to Je-sus. The 
good news is for all, 
yet those who think 
more of this world 
than they do of heav- 
en, Christ does not 
choose for his own, 
and they are lost. 
Je-sus said the 
good news is like un-to leav-en or yeast, which a 
wo-man took and hid in some meal till the whole of 
it was light. 




LEAV-EN. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

THE LORD'S SUPPER. JESUS IN GETHSEMANE. THE 

JUDAS KISS. PETER DENIES JESUS. 

Now the day was come when the Jews were to 
keep the feast of the pass-o-ver. To do this each 
man took a lamb to the church, and killed it on the 
al-tar. The priest would burn the fat, but the rest of 
the lamb the man took home, and it was cooked, and 
he and his folks ate of it in the night. 

The twelve came to Je-sus to ask him at what 
place they should set out their feast. For they had 
no house or home of their own. 

Je-sus sent forth two of them and said, Go ye to 
Je-ru-sa-lem, and there shall meet you a man with a 
jug of wa-ter. Go to the house where he goes, and 
say to the man who lives there, The mas-ter bids 
thee show us the room where he shall come to eat 
the feast with his friends. 

And he will show you a large room, up-stairs; 
there spread the feast. 

The men did as Je-sus told them, and the man 
showed them the room, and there they spread the 
feast. 

And at night Je-sus came with his twelve 



History of the New Testament. 

friends. And as they did eat, Je-sus said, There is 
one here who will give me up to the Jews. 

These words made them all feel sad. 

Now there was one of the twelve of whom Je-sus 
was most fond. His name was John. And as he 
lay with his head on Je-sus' breast he said to him, 
Lord, who is it ? 

Je-sus said, It is he to whom I shall give the 
piece of bread I dip in the dish. 

And when he had dipped the bread he gave it 
to Ju-das. And he said to him, What is in thy 
heart to do, do at once. 

Now none of the rest knew why Je-sus spoke 
thus. But as Ju-das had charge of the bag in which 
the mon-ey was kept, some of them thought that he 
bade him buy things they were in need of, or give 
some-thing to the poor. Then Ju-das went out of 
the house where Je-sus and his friends were; and it 
was night. 

And when he had gone, Je-sus said to them, I 
shall be with you but a short time. But ere I go a 
new law I give to you — the law of love. As I have 
loved you so shall ye love each oth-er. By this shall 
all men know that ye loye me. 

Pe-ter said, Lord, where dost thou go? 

Je-sus said, Where I go thou canst not come now, 
but thou shalt be with me by-and-by. 



The Lord's Supper. 



Pe-ter said, Lord, why can-not I go with thee 
now? I will lay down my life for thy sake? 

Je-sus said, 
I tell thee, Pe- 
ter, the cock 
shall not crow 
twice till thou 
hast sworn 
thrice that thou 
dost not know 



me. 

And as they 
did eat Je-sus 
took the bread 
and gave 
thanks and 
broke it, and 
gave to them, 
and said, Take 
and eat. 

Then he 
took some wine 
in a cup, and 
when he had 
thanked God, 
he gave it to them and they all drank of it. 

And he told them that when he was dead they 




Christ's ag-o-ny in geth-sem-a-ne. 



History of the New Testament. 

must meet from time to time, and eat the bread and 
drink the wine in the same way that he had shown 
them; and as often as they did it they were to think 
of him, and the death that he died to save men from 
their sins. 

Je-sus spoke with them for some time. Then a 
hymn was sung and they all went from the house, 
and came to the Mount of Ol-ives. And they went 
to a gar-den there, known as Geth-sem-a-ne. And 
Je-sus took with him Pe-ter, James, and John, and 
said to them, Sit ye here and watch with me while 
I go and pray. And he went from them a short 
way, and knelt down and prayed. And when he 
thought how soon he was to be put to death for our 
sins, he was in such grief and pain that the sweat 
seemed like great drops of blood as it fell to the 
ground. And God sent an an-gel to calm him and 
give him strength. 

And when he rose from his knees and went back 
to where his friends were, he found that they slept. 
And he said to Pe-ter, What, couldst thou not watch 
with me one hour? 

And he went off to pray once more. And when 
he came back, his friends still slept! And he left 
them and came back a third time. Then he said, 
Rise up and let us go, for the worst of my foes is 
close at hand. 



History of the New Testament. 

Now Ju-das had been on the watch, and knew 
when Je-sus went to the gar-den. And as it was 
dark he thought it would be the best time to give 
him up to the Jews. So he went to the chief priests 
and told them, and they sent a band of men out with 
him to take Je-sus. 

Je-sus, who knew all things, knew that Ju-das 
was near, yet he did not flee. 

Ju-das had told the band that he would give them 
a sign by which they might know which was Je-sus. 
He said, The one I shall kiss, is he; take him, and 
hold him fast. Then he came to Je-sus and gave 
him a kiss. 

And the men laid their hands on Je-sus and took 
him. His friends who were near him said to him, 
Lord, shall we fight them with the sword ? 

Pe-ter who had a sword struck one of the band 
and cut off his ear. 

Je-sus said to him, Put thy sword back in its 
sheath. Could I not pray to God to send me a host 
of an-gels to fight for me and save me from death ? 
But how then could the words of wise men come 
true? Then Je-sus touched the man's ear and made 
it well. And he said to those who took him, Have 
ye come out with swords and staves as if I were a 
thief, to take me ? I sat from day to day and taught 
you in the church, and you did not harm me. 



The Lords Supper. 

Then Pe-ter, James and John, and the rest, were 
in great fear, and fled from him. 

The men that took Je-sus led him off to the 
house of the high priest, where the scribes and 
those who had charge of the church had all met. 

Pe-ter kept up with the crowd and went in a side 
door of the house to sit by the fire. And one of the 
maids of the high priest came to him, and said, Thou 
wast with Je-sus, But he said, I know not what you 
mean. 

Then he went out on the porch and the cock 
crew. While there a maid said to those who stood 
near, This one was with Je-sus. 

And Pe-ter said once more that he did not know 
him. 

Now it chanced that one of the high priest's men 
was a kins-man of the one whose ear Pe-ter had cut 
off. And he said to him, Did I not see thee in the 
gar-den with him? 

Pe-ter swore that he was not there, and did not 
know the man. And Je-sus gave him a look as he 
went by, that was like a stab in Pe-ter's heart. For 
then the cock crew for the second time, and it came to 
Pe-ter's mind what Je-sus had said, — Ere the cock 
crow twice, thou shalt de-ny me thrice. And he 
went out and wept as if his heart would break, so 
great was his grief and shame. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

CHRIST BEFORE PILATE. ON THE CROSS. 

The chief court of the Jews met in a room near 
the church, and was made up of three-score and ten 
men. The high priest and chief priests were there, 
and the scribes, and head men of the church, and 
it was for them to say what should be done to those 
who broke the laws of Mo-ses; some of whom had 
to pay fines, or to be shut up in jail. But if a man 
was to be put to death they had to ask the chief 
whom the Ce-sar of Rome had set to rule in that part 
of the land if he would let the deed be done. 

It was night when the Jews took Je-sus, and as 
soon as it was day they brought him in-to court to 
have him tried. The high priest said to him, Art 
thou the Christ? tell us. 

Je-sus said, If I tell you, ye will not think I 
speak the truth. 

Then they all said, Art thou the son of God ? 

And he said, I am. 

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and said, 
By his own words we can judge him. What do you 
say shall be done to him ? And they all cried out, 
Let him be put to death ! 



Christ Before Pilate. 

Then they spit in his face, and struck Je-sus with 
the palms of their hands. And they bound him and 
led him blind-fold to Pi-late's house, and told Pi-late 
some of the things he had said and done. 

Pi-late said to Je-sus, Art thou a king? Je-sus 




" BE-HOLD THE MAN." 



said, I am. But my realm is not of this world, else 
would my men have fought to set me free. 

Pi-late said, I find no fault with this man. And 
the Jews were more fierce, and cried that his words 
had made a great stir in all the land from Gal-i-lee 



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to that place. Pi-late said, if he came from Gal-i- 
lee they must take him to He-rod, who ruled that 
part of the land. And He-rod was in Je-ru-sa-lem 
at that time. 

When He-rod saw Je-sus he was glad, for he 
had heard much of him, and was in hopes to see 
some great things done by him. But when He-rod 
spoke to Je-sus, Je-sus said not one word. And the 
chief priests and scribes stood by, and cried out that 
he claimed to be king of the Jews, and the son of 
God, and had taught men that they need not keep 
the laws of Mo-ses or of Rome. These were crimes 
for which he ought to be put to death. 

So He-rod and his men of war made sport of 
Je-sus, and put on him a robe such as kings wear; 
for he had said he was a king. And then He-rod 
sent him back to Pi-late. 

Pi-late said, I find no fault in this man ; nor does 
He-rod, for I sent you to him; he has done naught 
for which he should be put to death. 

Now it was the rule when this great feast was 
held, that one of those who were shut up in jail 
should be set free. And at this time there was a 
Jew there, whose name was Ba-rab-bas ; and he had 
killed some one. 

Pi-late said, Which one shall I set free — Ba-rab- 
bas, or Je-sus, who is called Christ? 




PI-LATE WASH-ING HIS HANDS. 



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While Pi-late spoke, his wife sent word to him 
to do no harm to that just man, for she had had a 
strange dream a-bout him. But the chief priests 
urged the mob to ask that Ba-rab-bas be set free. 

Pi-late said, What then shall I do with Je-sus, 
who is called Christ ? 

They cried out, Hang him! Hang him! 

When Pi-late saw that he could not get them to 
ask for Je-sus, he took some wa-ter and washed his 
hands in full view of the mob, and said, I am not to 
blame for the death of this just man ; see ye to it. 

Then the Jews said, Let his blood be on us and 
on our chil-dren. 

But Pi-late was to blame for Je-sus' death; for he 
gave him up to the Jews that he might please them, 
and keep the place that he had. 

Now it was the law of the land that a man should 
be scourged ere he was hung. So Je-sus was stripped 
to the waist, and his hands were bound to a low 
post in front of him so as to make him stoop, and 
while he stood in this way he was struck with rods, 
or a whip of cords, till the blood burst through the 
skin- 
Then Pilate's men of war led him to a room, and 
took off his own robe, and put on him one of a red 
and blue tint. Then they made a crown of thorns 
and put it on his head ; and they put a reed in his 



Christ Before Pilate. 



right hand. 
Then they 
bowed down 
to him, as if he 
were a king, 
and mocked at 
him and said, 
Hail, King of 
the Jews ! 
And they spat 
on him, and 
took the reed 
andstruckhim 
on the head, 
and smote him 
with their 
hands. 

When Ju- 
das saw that 
Je-sus was to 
be put to death, 
he was in great 
grief to think 
he had brought 
such a fate on 

one who had B e-ho LD the man. 

done no wrong. And he took back to the chief priests 




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the sum they had paid him, and he said to them, I have 
done a great sin to give up to you one who had done no 
wrong. They said to him, What is that to us? See 
thou to that. Then Ju-das threw down the sil-ver, 
and went out and hung him-self. 

Then the men of war took off the gay robe from 
Je-sus, and put his own clothes on him and led him 
out to put him to death. 

They met a man named Si-mon, and made him 
bear the cross. And a great crowd of men and wo- 
men went with them who wept and mourned for 
Je-sus. Je-sus told them not to weep for him, but 
for them-selves and their chil-dren, be-cause of the 
woes that were to come on the Jews. 

They brought him to a place called Cal-va-ry, 
not far from the gates of Je-ru-sa-lem. And they 
nailed his feet and hands to the cross, which was 
then set up in the ground. And all the while Je-sus 
prayed, Fa-ther for-give them, for they know not what 
they do. He meant that they did not know how 
great was their sin; nor that they had in truth put to 
death the son of God. With him they hung two 
thieves, one on his right hand, and one on his left. 

Then they sat down to watch Je-sus, who hung for 
hours on the cross in great pain, ere his death came, 
to him. And they took his robes and gave each 
one a share ; but for his coat they cast lots. And 




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at the top of the cross Pi-late had put up these words : 

Je-sus of Naz-a-reth, King of the Jews. 
And the Jews as they went by shook their heads 
at him, and said, If thou be the son of God come down 
from the cross, and the chief priests and the scribes 

mocked him 
and said, His 
trust was in 
God ; let God 
save him now if 
he will have 
him. 

One of the 
thieves spoke to 
Je-sus and said, 
If thou art the 
Christ save thy- 
self and us. 

But the oth- 
er said, Dost 
thou not fear 
God when thou 
art so soon to die? It is right that we should die 
for our sins, but this man has done no wrong. And 
he said to Je-sus, Think of me when thou art on thy 
throne. Je-sus said to him, This day shalt thou be 
with me where God is. 




CHRIST ON CAL-VA-RY. 




CHRJST CA-B-BY-ING HIS CROSS. 



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Now there stood near the cross of Je-sus his mo- 
ther, and John — the one of the twelve most dear to 
him. And he bade John take care of his mo-ther, 
and told her to look on John as her son. And John 
took her to his own home to take care of her and 
give her all that she had need of. 

From the sixth to the ninth hour — that is, from 
twelve to three o'clock — the sky was dark in all the 
land. And Je-sus thought that God had turned his 
face from him. And he cried out with aloud voice 
O God ! O God ! why hast thou left me ? 

One of the men near thought he was in pain, and 
he took a sponge and dipped it in the gall, and put 
it up on a reed to his mouth, so that Je-sus might 
drink. Je-sus wet his lips with the drink that was 
to ease his pain, then spoke once more, bowed his 
head and died. 

Then the veil which hung in the church, in front 
of the ark, was torn in two; the earth shook; the 
rocks were split ; the graves gave up their dead, and 
those who, while they lived, had served the Lord, 
rose and came out of their graves and went in-to Je- 
ru-sa-lem and were seen there. 

When those who had kept watch of Je-sus as he 
hung on the cross, saw these things that were done, 
they were in great fear, and said, There is no doubt 
that this man was the son of God. 




THE CRU-CI-FIX-ION. 



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As night came on the Jews went to Pi-late and 
begged him to kill Je-sus and the two thieves so that 

they could be put 
in their graves. 
For it would not 
do for them to 
hang on the cross 
on the day of rest. 
The men on 
guard broke the 
legs of the thieves 
to kill them, and 
thrust a spear in- 
to Je-sus' side to 
make sure that he 
was dead. 

Now there was 
near Cal-va-ry a 
gar-den, in which 
was a tomb in 
which no one had 
been laid. It was' 
cut in a rock, and 
was owned by a 




DEATH OF SAP-PHI-RA. 



rich 

late 
and 



man- 



J o-seph of Ar-i-ma-the-a. H e came to Pi- 
and begged that he might lay Je-sus in this grave, 
Pi-late told him to do so. And Jo-seph took 



Jesus Leaves the Grave. 

Je-sus down from the cross, and wrapped him in the 
fine lin-en he had brought, and laid him in the tomb, 
and put a great stone at the door, and left him there. 

The chief priests went to Pi-late and said, It has 
come to our minds that Je-sus said that he would 
rise on the third day, so we pray thee to have men 
watch the tomb lest some of his friends come and steal 
him, and then go and say that he rose from the dead. 

Pi-late said, Ye have your own watch-men. Go 
and make it as sure as you can. 

So they went and put a seal of wax on the great 
tomb, and set men to watch by the tomb. 

But that night God sent down an an-gel, and he 
came and rolled back the stone from the door, and 
sat on it. His face shone like fire, and his robes 
were white as snow. And the watch-men shook for 
fear of him, and had no more strength than dead men. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

JESUS LEAVES THE GRAVE. APPEARS TO MARY. 

STEPHEN STONED. PAULS LIFE, AND DEATH. 

On the first day of the week, as soon as it was light, 
three wo-men, friends of Je-sus, came to the tomb with 
the gums and spice they used to lay out their dead. 



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And they said as they went, Who shall roll the 
stone a-way from the door of the tomb ? 

And lo, when they came near they found that 
the great stone had been rolled a-way. And when 
they went in the tomb, they saw an an-gel clothed in 
a long white robe, and they shook with fear. 

He said to them, Have no fear. Ye seek Je-sus, 
who was put to death on the cross. He is not here, 
though this is the place where they laid him. Go 
tell his friends that he has ris-en from the dead, and 
bid them go to Gal-i-lee where they shall see him. 

Two of the wo-men from the tomb, with fear and 
yet with joy, ran to tell the good news. 

But Ma-ry Mag-da-le-ne stood out-side the tomb 
and wept. And as she stooped down and looked in 
the tomb, she saw two an-gels in white, the one at 
the head, the oth-er at the foot of the place where 
Je-sus had lain. 

And they said to her, Why dost thou weep ? She 
said, Be-cause they have taken my Lord a-way, and 
I know not where they have laid him. And when 
she had thus said, she drew back and saw that Je- 
sus stood near, yet knew not that it was he. 

Je-sus said to her, Ma-ry! She turned and said 
to him, Mas-ter! 

Je-sus said, Touch me not, for I have not yet gone 
up to my Fa-ther; but go tell the breth-ren what 
thou hast seen and heard. 



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And Ma-ry told them that she had seen the 
Lord, and all that he had said to her. 

And Je-sus was seen two or three times on the 
earth af-ter his 
death, and he came 
and spoke to those 
who were to teach 
and preach as he 
had taught them. 
But Thom-as was 
not with the rest 
when the Lord 
came. And when 
they told him that 
they had seen the 
Lord, he said, I 
doubt it. But if I 
shall see in his hands 
the marks of the 
nails, and thrust my 
hand in the wound 
the spear made in 
his side, then shall 
I know that it is he. 

In eight days these friends met in a room to talk 
and pray. Thom-as was with them and the door 
was shut. Then came Je-sus and stood in their 




HE IS RIS-EN. 



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midst and said, Peace be un-to you. Then said he 
to Thom-as, Reach here and touch my hands, and 
put thy hand in my side, and doubt no more that I 
have ris-en from the dead. 

When Thom-as heard his. voice and knew that it 
was Je-sus, he said, My Lord and my God. Je-sus 
said to him, Thom-as, be-cause thou hast seen me, 
thou hast faith in me; blest are they that have not 
seen me, and yet put their trust in me. 

At the end of five weeks he met with these friends 
at Je-ru-sa-lem. And when he had had a talk with 
them he led them out as far as Beth-a-ny. And he 
raised his hands and blest them, and as he stood 
thus ne went up in a cloud out of their sight. 

When the day of Pen-te-cost, or har-vest feast, 
had come, Pe-ter, and the rest of those whom Je-sus 
had taught, were all in one place. 

And all at once there came the great rush of a 
strong wind that filled the room where they were. 
And tongues of fire came down on each one of them, 
and their hearts were filled with a strange pow-er, 
and they spoke all known tongues. 

And there were men there from all parts of the 
East, and when they heard these men of Gal-i-lee 
speak in their own tongues of the works of God, they 
were in a maze. And some said, These men are 
full of new wine. 



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But Pe-ter stood up and said the men were not 
drunk, but that this strange gift of speech was one of 
the signs that God had told the Jews that he would 
send on the earth. And Pe-ter preached so well to 
the crowd that not a few left the ranks of sin and 
gave their hearts to Christ, and to good works. 

From that time those who had been in the school 
in which Je-sus taught while on earth went out to 
teach and preach the good news. They gave alms 
to the poor, healed the sick, and did all the good 
that they could. 

One of them, named Ste-phen, stood up to preach 
and to tell the Jews what God had done for them, 
and to try to make them give up their sins. He 
spoke in plain words, and said, The Jews ol old put 
to death those who were sent to tell them that Je- 
sus was to come; and now you have slain the Just 
One him-self. 

When the Jews heard this they were full of rage, 
and gnashed their teeth at him like wild beasts. But 
he raised his eyes to the sky, and saw a great light 
there. And he said, I see Je-sus on the right hand 
of God. 

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and 
stopped their ears so that they could not hear his 
words ; and they brought him out of the town, and 
stoned him. 




THE AS-CEN-SION TO HEAV-EN. 



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And Ste-phen knelt down, and asked God to 
for-give them for this sin. And then he died. 

The men who threw the stones at Ste-phen took 
off their cloaks, that they might have the free use of 
their arms, and laid them at the feet of a young 
man named Saul. 




HOU-SES ON THE WALLS OF DA-MAS-CUS. 



Now Saul had done much harm to the good 
cause, and was in a great rage with those who were 
friends of Je-sus and taught his truths. So he went 
to the high priest at Je-ru-sa-lem and asked to be sent 
to Da-mas-cus, that if he found friends of Je-sus there 
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to Je-ru-sa-lem. And the high priest gave him notes 
to those who had charge of the church-es in Da-mas- 
cus, and he set out for that place. But when he 
came near the town there shone round him a great 
light, and he was in such fear that he fell to the 
ground. And a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why 
dost thou hate me and hunt me down ? 

Saul said, Who art thou, Lord ? The voice said, 
I am Je-sus, whom thou dost use so ill. 

Then Saul shook with fear and said, Lord, what 
wilt thou have me to do ? The Lord said, Rise, and 
go in-to the town, and it shall be shown thee what 
thou must do. And the men who were with him 
stood dazed and dumb, for they heard the voice, but 
could see no man; 

When Saul rose from the earth he could not see, 
for the light had made him blind ; and those who 
were with him led him by the hand in-to Da-mas- 
cus. And for three days he had no sight; and he 
could not eat nor drink. 

But God sent An-a-ni-as, a good man, to touch 
his eyes, and his sight and his strength came back. 
And his heart was changed, and there was no man 
who could preach as Paul did, by which name he 
was now known. 

For a while he went with Bar-na-bas. Then he 
took Si-las with him, and they made both friends and 



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foes. The Jews at Phil-ip-pi found fault with them, 
beat them and put them in jail, and bade the jail-er 
keep them safe. So he made their feet fast in the 
stocks — which were 
great blocks of wood 
with holes in them. 

At mid-night Paul 
and Si-las prayed, and 
those in the jail heard 
them. Then all at once 
there came a great 
earth-quake which 
shook the jail, and the 
doors flew o-pen, and 
the chains fell from 
those who were bound. 
The jail-er woke from 
his sleep, and when he 
saw that not a door was 
shut, he feared he 
would be put to death 
if those in the jail had 
fled. So he drew his 
sword to kill him-self. But Paul cried to him with 
a loud voice, Do thy-self no harm, for we are all here. 

Then the jail-er brought a light, and came to the 
cell where Paul and Si-las were, and he knelt there, 

Y. F. B.— 27 




THE CON-VER-SION OF ST. PAUL. 



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and cried out, Sirs, what must I do to be saved ? 
And they said, Have faith in the Lord Je-sus Christ, 
and thou shalt be saved. 

That same hour of the night the jail-er took Paul 
and Si-las and washed their wounds, and brought 
them food, and his heart was full of joy, for he and 
all in his house were made Chris-tians, and God 
would for-give their past sins. 

The next morn the chief men at Phil-ip-pi sent 
word to the jail-er to let those men go, for the Jews 
found they had no right to beat Paul. And they 
feared the law, and begged him to leave the town. 

Paul went to A-thens, the chief town of Greece, 
which was full of false gods, to whom al-tars had been 
built. But there was one al-tar on which were the 
words, To the Un-known God. 

Those who built it felt that there was one God of 
whom they had not been taught, and this al-tar was 
for him. 

Paul taught in A-thens, both in-doors and out- 
doors. And when the wise men heard that he told 
of Je-sus, and that we were all to rise from the dead, 
they brought him to Mars' Hill, where the chief 
court was held. And they said to him, Tell us now 
what the good news is. For thou dost speak strange 
words, and we would like to know what they mean. 

Paul told them there was but one true God, and 



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they must serve him and give up their sins, and 
put their trust in Je-sus, and they would all be 
saved at the last 
day. 

Then Paul 
wenttoCo-rinth, f| 
where he spent 
some time. At 
the end of some 
years he came 
back to Je-ru-sa- 
lem. And the 
Lord's friends 
met him, and 
were glad to see 
his face once 
more. And he 
told them where 
he had been, 
and how God 
had helped him. 

And Paul 
went up to the 
church. And 
while he was there some Jews from Asia saw him and 
took hold of him, and cried out, Men of Is-ra-el, help 
us. This is the man who has taught that we were 




ST. PAUL LEAV-ING TYRE. 



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not to do as Mo-ses told us, nor to come here to 
pay our vows. And he has brought with him Gen- 
tiles whom it is a crime to let come in-to our church. 

Soon all the town was in an up-roar, and Paul 
was brought in-to the church, and the gates that led 
to the courts were all shut. As they were about to 
kill him, some one went and told the chief who had 
charge of a band of Ro-man troops, and dwelt near 
the great church to guard it. And he and some of 
his men ran down in the midst of the crowd, who, as 
soon as they saw them, ceased to beat Paul. 

The chief took Paul from them, and had him 
bound with chains, and asked who he was and what 
he had done. Some cried this, and some that, and 
no one could tell just what they said. 

And the chief led him off to his own house, to 
save Paul's life, and the mob brought up the rear, 
and cried out, A-way with him ! Kill him ! The 
next day the chief let Paul go, and sent him to Fe- 
lix, who ruled in Ju-de-a. And here he was shut 
up in jail, and was there for two years or more. He 
told them who he was, and why he had gone to Je- 
ru-sa-lem, and said he had done no wrong that he 
knew of; though some might say it was wrong for 
him to preach that the dead should rise from their 
graves at the last day. 

Fe-lix sent the Jews off, and bade the jail-er ]et 



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Paul walk in and out as he chose, and see all the 
friends who might call. He was there for two years, 

and at the end of 
that time Fes-tus 
took Fe-lix's 
place. 

At last he 
wassentto Rome 
to be tried be- 
fore the Ce-sar. 
While on the 
sea a fierce wind 
sprang up, and 
beat the ship so 
that the men 
could not steer. 
And they were 
in great fear lest 
they should 
drown. But 
Paul told them 
not to fear, for 
though the ship 
might be a wreck 
there would be no loss of life. At the end of two 
weeks the ship struck the isle of Mal-ta, and the men 
swam to the shore on bits of boards. 




st. paul's ship-wreck. 



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Paul staid here for three months, and then went 
to Rome, where he dwelt for two years or more, and 
taught men to trust in the Lord and to do right. 

We are not told when or how he died. 



CHAPTER XX. 

WHAT JOHN SAW WHILE ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS. THE 

GREAT WHITE THRONE. THE LAND OF LIGHT. 

John wrote the last book in the New Tes-ta- 
ment. It is called Rev-e-la-tion ; and that means 
that it tells what no one else but John knew. 

John was sent to the lone isle of Pat-mos by one 
of the bad Em-pe-rors of Rome, who would not let him 
preach or teach the truths that Christ taught. 

While he was at Pat-mos Je-sus came to him in 
a dream, and showed him all the things that he wrote 
of in this book. 

John says : I heard a great voice like a trum-pet, 
and as I turned to see who it was that spoke to me, 
I saw Je-sus clothed in a robe that fell to his feet, 
and was held at the waist by a belt of gold. And 
when I saw him I fell at his feet like one dead. And 
he laid his right hand on me, and said, Fear not ; I 



What John Saw while on the Isle of Patmos. 

am he who died on the cross, but who now lives to 
die no more. 




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FAT-KiOS. 



Je-sus told John to write down all that he saw, 
and to send it to the church-es for which it was meant, 



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Then John saw a door open in the sky, and a 
voice said to him, Come up here, and I will show 
thee v/hat will take place in the time to come. And 
he heard the an-gels sing songs of praise to Je-sus, 
whom they called the Lamb that was slain. And 
John was shown strange things that were to teach 
him what the friends of Christ would have to put up 
with till the end of the world. And he was shown, 
too, how the Lord would save them from their foes, 
so that at last no one could hurt or harm them. 

Then John saw a great white throne in heav-en, 
and Je-sus sat on it. And the dead rose from their 
graves, and came and stood near the throne to be 
judged. All the things that they had done while on 
the earth were put down in the books out of which 
they were judged. And if their names were not in 
the Book of Life they were cast in-to the lake of fire. 

When this great day was past, John saw new 
skies and a new earth, for the old earth and skies had 
been burnt up. And he saw the New Je-ru-sa-lem 
come down from the skies, and heard a voice say 
that God would come and live with men. 

Round the New Je-ru-sa-lem, which was built of 
gold, was a high wall with twelve gates, three on each 
side. At each gate was an an-gel to guard it. In 
the walls were all kinds of rich and rare gems, and 
its twelve gates were made of pearls. 



What John Saw while on the Isle of Patmos. 



There was no need of the sun or the moon, for 
God was there and Je-sus, and they made it light. 
And those whom 
Je-sus had saved 
— Jews and Gen- 
tiles, rich and poor 
— were to come 
and live in it. 
And the gates 
should not be 
shut, for there 
will be no night 
there. And none 
but those whose 
names are in the 
Book of Lrfe shall 
go in-to it. 

And John saw 
a pure riv-er called 
the wa-ter of life. 
On each side of 
it grew the tree 
of life that bore 
twelve kinds of 
fruit, which were ripe each month. And those 
who dwell in that land of light, and eat the fruits 
of the tree of life, and drink of the wa-ter of life, 




ST. JOHN S VIS-ION. 



History of the New Testament. 

shall see the Lord's face and be with him and 
serve him. 

He will wipe all tears from their eyes, and there 
shall be no more death, nor grief, nor pain. 

Je-sus said to John, Blest are they who keep 
God's laws and do his will, that they may pass 
through the gates to his bright home on high. 



THE 



STORY OF JBSUS 



TOLD IN PICTURES. 



THE ANNUNCIATION. 

Be-fore Je-sus was born in-to this world, an an-gel came 
to Ma-ry and told her that she should have a son whose 
name should be Je-sus, for he should be the Sa-viour of th^ 
world. The name Je-sus means Sa-viour. In the pic-ture 
Ma-ry is kneel-ing be-fore her Bi-ble, when the an-gel 
comes with his won-der-ful words. His stem of lil-ies is 
more beau-ti-ful than a rod of gold, and his sim-ple robe 
fin-er than an-y silks or jew-els would be. He is a mes-sen- 
ger of God, and no won-der that Ma-ry kneels to hear 
what he will say. See the wreath of leaves on his head. 
What love our Sa-viour must have had for us to leave the 
bright place where an-gels dwell and come to earth to be 
a lit-tle help-less child, and then to wear a crown of thorns 
in-stead of such a wreath! Ma-ry looks as though she 
would be a ver-y kind and lov-ing moth-er, but she lived in 
a ver-y hum-ble home. There were a great man-y ver-y 
proud and ver-y grand wom-en who claimed to be descend- 
ed from Da-vid; but God did not choose them. He chose 
poor Ma-ry to be the moth-er of Je-sus, for she too was 
de-scend-ed from Da-vid. God does not choose men and 
wom-en for any earth-ly pow-er or wealth that they have, 
but be-cause they love and o-bey him. So, at least, was 
Ma-ry cho-sen. 




THE AN-STUN-CI-A-TION. 



THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. 

This pic-ture is a small like-ness, or re-pro-duc-tion, of 
one of the great pic-tures of the world. And it is in-tend-ed 
to rep-re-sent the great-est e-vent in all hu-man his-to-ry. 
Christ is the King of all the earth. His home was, and 
still is, in heav-en. But when He came to this world to 
save us he came as a help-less lit-tle babe. One would have 
thought that the most splen-did pal-ace of the world would 
be too poor to shel-ter this Prince of Peace as he lay in his 
moth-er's arms. Yet it was but a sta-ble in a vil-lage. 

Itteach-es us the great les-son that hou-ses and mon-ey 
and wealth are noth-ing. Pal-a-ces can-not add to the 
sto-ry of the life of Je-sus which all his chil-dren re-mem- 
ber. He was all his life poor. He said that while the 
fox-es had holes, and the birds had nests, He had no place 
in which to lay his head. 

And it shows how God's plans al-ways suc-ceed, no 
mat-ter how they are start-ed. The great faith that must 
save the world be-gan to be known on that night in the 
lit-tle town of Beth-le-hem when the ba-by Je-sus had no 
cra-dle but the man-ger out of which the cat-tie ate, and no 
bed sof-ter than straw. Thus the Christ-ian hope be-gan, 
which has spread al-most o-ver the world. 

And re-mem-ber-ing his own in-fan-cy; for he was not 
like oth-er babes who can-not re-mem-ber any-thing a-bout 
ear-ly life; Je-sus al-ways loved lit-tle chil-dren. One of 
the things which we al-ways re-mem-ber He said was * 'Suf- 
fer lit-tle chil-dren to come un-to Me, for of such is the 
King-dom of Heav-en." 




Y.F.B.— -3 



THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. 



THE MAGIS ARRIVAL. 



In Beth-le-hem Je-sus was born. What a bright hap-py 
lit-tle ba-by, and how ten-der-ly his moth-er holds him, 
while Jo-seph stand-ing back, can on-ly clasp his hands and 
look and won-der at such great things. Je-sus the babe, 
Ma-ry his moth-er, Jo-seph his fa-ther, — all these we know 
a-bout; but who are the oth-ers? They are wise men who 
lived far a- way from where Je-sus was born, and who used 
to watch the move-ments of the stars at night, and gave 
them much thought. One night they saw a ver-y bright 
and beau-ti-ful star that had nev-er shone on earth be-fore. 
It was the star of Beth-le-hem, and it was shin-ing on the 
man-ger where Je-sus was born. So these wise men took 
gifts and hur-ried to where Je-sus was, to give them to 
him and to wor-ship him. In the pic-ture they have just 
come, and their cam-els are wait-ing out-side the door. 
One of them is hold-ing a cas-ket of gifts in his hand, 
and one of them has just laid a lamp on the floor. It is 
not like our lamps. Those men burned in it some-thing 
that made a ver-y sweet smell, and they did this to make 
the place pleas-ant and beau-ti-ful in hon-or of Je-sus. See 
the lit-tle ba-by, he seems to know what they have come 
for, and holds out his hands to them. 



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THE MA-GI'S AR-RI-VAL. 



FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. 



This is Ma-ry and Jo-seph and the child Je-sus, and 
they are hid-ing from King Her-od. Her-od was a wick-ed 
man, and want-ed to kill Je-sus, be-cause he had heard such 
great things a-bout him, and was a-fraid that some day, 
when he be-came a man, Je-sus would make him-self king 
and rule in his place. Nei-ther Jo-seph nor Ma-ry would 
have known this, but God told them in a dream, and said 
that they should go to E-gypt and stay there un-til Her- 
od's death. In the pic-ture we see them on their way. 
Look how care-ful-ly the don-key steps. The ser-pent 
hur-ries a-way and will not harm them. All a-round the 
way seems wild and dan-ger-ous; but Jo-seph is look-ing 
out for the best path, and Ma-ry holds the ba-by ver-y 
close to her breast. See the axe on Jo-seph's shoul-der. 
He knows how to use it bet-ter than an-y oth-er tool, for he 
'is a car-pen-ter. If an-y en-e-my or beast should at-tack 
them, he could fight with it, and if an-y work is to be done 
in the land to which they go, he can earn his dai4y bread 
with it. But a bet-ter safe-guard than Jo-seph's axe and 
Ma-ry's care is the bright an-gel o-ver-head, watch -ingf them 
so close-ly. Poor lit-tle child Je-sus! e-ven as a help-less 
babe the world could not leave him in peace. 




FLIGHT IN-TO E-GYPT. 



BOYHOOD OF CHRIST. 



Here we see Je-sus at home a-gain in Naz-a-reth. 
Wick-ed old Her-od died years a-go, and Je-sus is now 
quite a boy, and what a very hap-py fam-i-ly they are. 
Ma-ry is at work, but she can-not keep her eyes off of her 
boy, who will some day be her Lord and Sa-viour. Jo-seph 
looks up from his work smil-ing to see the boy Je-sus help- 
ing him so cheer-ful-ly. See how man-ful-ly the lit-tle fel- 
low trudg-es on with his big arm full of tools. The old 
hen with her chicks is not at all a-fraid of him, for she 
knows well he would not stone her or tease her. The 
doves came out of their lit-tle house to watch Je-sus. Je- 
sus' fa-ther was a car-pen-ter, and he must have made that 
dove-house him-self. I think that Je-sus must have loved 
his pets very much, for when he was a man, he seemed to 
re-mem-ber just how they act-ed, and one time he said that 
we should be as "harm-less as doves." An-oth-^r time he 
said that he would have cared for the Jews, "e-ven as a hen 
gath-er-eth her chick-ens un-der her wing;" but the Jews 
were not will-ing. Je-sus' fa-ther could not al-ways be 
mak-ing dove-hous-es though. He had to work hard for 
his liv-ing. Look at the great beam he is cut-ting. I am 
glad that Je-sus stopped to help him and make him hap-py 
at his work. 




THE BOY-HOOD OF CHRX3T. 



THE SAVIOUR IN THE TEMPLE. 

Who is this stand-ing in the midst of these old men ? 
It is Je-sus, who is now twelve years old; and this is the 
Jew-ish tem-ple where he is. See the hang-ing lamps in- 
side, and the great pil-lars of the porch. These old men 
are scribes. It is their bus-i-ness to know ail a-bout the 
Bible and to teach it to Jew-ish chil-dren. Je-sus seems to 
be ver-y ea-ger to learn of them, and he asks them man-y 
ques-tions, and an-swer theirs. He is old e-nough now to 
know that that tem-ple was his Fa-ther's house, and that 
Bi-ble his Fa-ther's book. His ques-tions and an-swers 
sur-prise these old men who gath-er a-bout him. Two of 
them stand-ing back are whis-per-ing a-bout him. Some 
of them look cross,- and oth-ers ver-y kind. No doubt he is 
tell-ing them some-thing ver-y won-der-ful a-bout his Fa-ther 
in heav-en. He seems to have for-got-ten him-self, and 
his face and raised hand are ea-ger with what he is tell-ing 
them. But that oth-er hand on the desk looks a lit-tle tim-id 
and young. He must go back and live with his moth-er 
and fa-ther be-fore he goes out a-mong men to work. 
Ma-ry and Jo-seph did not live at Je-ru-sa-lem, where the 
tem-ple was, but they have gone there with Je-sus to one 
of the great Jew-ish fes-ti-vals. They leave Je-sus there 
with-out know-ing it. By and by they will miss him, and 
think that he is lost, and come back and find him, and take 
him home with them to Naz-a-reth. 




THE SA-VIOUR IN THE TEM-PI.E. 



JOHN PREACHING TO THE JEWS. 

John, called John the Bap-tist, be-cause he bap-tized 
so man-y, came to tell men that Je-sus was com-ing. 
When John was young he went in-to the wil-der-ness to 
live a-lone. A wil-der-ness is a place where there is noth-ing 
but great trees and caves, where wild beasts hide and where 
rocks and thorns and fall-en trees make it al-most im-pos-si- 
ble to walk. There John prayed and stud-ied un-til it was 
near-ly time for Je-sus to come. Then he came in-to the 
cit-ies and towns of Ju-de-a and all a-long the Jor-dan 
preach-ing and bap-tiz-ing. In the pic-ture he is lean-ing 
a-gainst a stone, a shep-herd's crook in his hand. He has 
gath-ered a knot of coun-try peo-ple a-round him and some 
from the cit-ies. . There are two scribes stand-ing to-geth- 
er, one of them hold-ing a roll, prob-a-bly the He-brew Bi- 
ble ; and there is a sol-dier with his great spear, and a shep- 
herd with his sheep. There are mer-chants with their 
bags of gold at their waists, and wom-en who have come to 
draw wa-ter, and some who have brought their chil-dren to 
him. One lit-tle boy seems to be fright-ened at John's 
great shoul-ders and the rough cam-el's skin that he wears. 
John is not tell-ing them to get swords and spears and 
mon-ey to meet Je-sus with and make a king of him. He 
tells them to leave their sins, and to meet him with pure 
hearts, and crown him the King of the King-dom of 
Heav-en. 



THE TEMPTATION. 

When all was read-y for Je-sus to be-gin his work, and 
he was a-bout thir-ty years old, he went out in-to that same 
wil-der-ness where John had lived so long, that he too 
might be a-lone for a while and pray, and make read-y for 
all that he was to do and to suf-fer. And while he was 
there, the dev-il came to him to see if he could not make 
the ho-ly Je-sus sin and stop the work that he was to do; 
for the dev-il hates God and men. The dev-il can-not 
work with truth, for if he told the truth no man would fol- 
low him ; but he de-ceives men in-to think-ing that what is 
wrong is not ver-y wrong af-ter all, and that what is good 
is fool-ish. He e-ven tries to de-ceive Je-sus. See, he has 
put a crown on- his head, and brace-lets on his arms, to 
make Je-sus think that he is a great king; but he can-not 
hide his ug-ly, cru-el face, nor the ser-pent at his feet. 
And al-though he us-es ver-y soft words, and of-fers Je- 
sus food, and hon-or and pow-er, if he will on-ly do things 
that are sin-ful, Je-sus an-swers him ver-y stern-ly, and 
sends him off con-quered. See how the dev-il has his 
hate-ful fist read-y to strike Je-sus; but he can-not hurt 
him, so long as Je-sus re-fus-es to sin. It is well that Je- 
sus does not sat-is-fy his hung-er in a for-bid-den way, for 
when the dev-il leaves him, the an-gels come and min-is-ter 
to him. How much bet-ter to re-ceive bread from an an- 
gel than a crown from the dev-il. 




THE TEMP-TA-TION. 



DRIVING OUT THE MONEY LENDERS. 

Is this the gen-tle Je-sus, stand-ing a-bove a crowd of 
an-gry men, with a whip in his hand ? Where is he, and 
what is he do-ing? Who are these men, and what have they 
done? This is the great tem-ple, and these men have 
built stalls in its porch-es, where they sell doves and cat- 
tle for the al-tar, and change Ro-man and Per-sian mon-ey 
in-to Jew-ish mon-ey. For do-ing all this they charged a 
great price, cheat-ing and rob-bing the peo-ple who went 
to the tem-ple to wor-ship. Je-sus is ver-y an-gry with 
them ; and tak-ing a cord, he makes a whip of it, and drives 
them out. One man a-gainst , so man-y, and yet they say 
no word nor lift a hand a-gainst him. As-ton-ished, si-lent, 
fear-ful, they pick up their mon-ey-bags and hur-ry out. 
They have been do-ing wrong, and they know it ; and that 
is the rea-son why they are so fright-ened. They can-not 
look in-to his eyes, and the soon-er they are out of his sight 
the bet-ter. See, one man is try-ing to pick up some mon- 
ey that he has dropped. An-oth-er is try-ing to an-swer 
Je-sus back, but Je-sus holds him with his eye, and he can- 
not speak. I would rath-er have done right than wrong, 
when I came to look in-to the eyes of Je-sus. 




DRIV-ING OUT THE MON-EY LEND-ERS. 



CHRIST AND NICODEMUS. 



The man seat-ed at the table is Je-sus; the one stand- 
ing, list-en-ing to him is Nic-o-de-mus. Nic-o-de-mus was 
not a brave man; but he was not a bad man eith-er. He 
want-ed to know a-bout Je-sus, but did not dare to go to him 
right out and out. So one night, when the streets of Je- 
ru-sa-lem were dark and still ; when on-ly the sound of the 
wind could be heard moan-ing a-round the cor-ners, lift-ing 
lit-tle clouds of dust, and rat-tling loose things, Nic-o-de- 
mus goes to Je-sus and asks him man-y ques-tions. Je-sus 
told Nic-o-de-mus that he could no more un-der-stand the 
things he was ask-ing a-bout than he could tell where the 
wind was blow-ing from ; and he must not be so anx-ious 
to un-der-stand ev-er-y-thing be-fore he be-lieved it. We 
should be-lieve what Je-sus says, and o-bey him, and we 
will un-der-stand it af-ter-ward. That is what Je-sus is 
tell-ing Nic-o-de-mus; and let us hope that Nic-o-de-mus 
fol-lowed this good ad-vice and tried to im-i-tate Je-sus in 
do-ing good, rath-er than un-der-stand ev-er-y-thing that Je- 
sus talked a-bout. Nic-o-de-mus looks like a good man, 
and I think that he loves and hon-ors Je-sus, by the way 
he lis-tens to him. 




Y. F. B.— 29 



THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. 



What a strange buck-et and what a strange well! The 
buck-et is made out of clay; it is re-al-ly a jar. The wom- 
an will let it down in-to the well and draw it up full of 
wa-ter, and car-ry it home on her head. There are not 
man-y wells in that coun-try, and ev-er-y one in a vil-lage 
drew wa-ter from the same one; and so these wells were 
made ver-y large, with walls and roofs of great stones. 
This was a ver-y old one. Ja-cob dug it, and peo-ple 
thought it al-most sa-cred. When the wom-an came to this 
well, she saw a Jew there; but did not ex-pect him to speak to 
her, for she lived in Sa-ma-ri-a; and the Jews hat-ed ev-er-y 
one that lived there. But this was Je-sus, and he had no 
such fool-ish ha-treds. So he spoke to her, and asked her 
for a drink. The wom-an be-gins to an-swer him sau-ci-ly. 
But Je-sus stops her, and tells her all a-bout her-self, and 
what she ought to do. She does not quite un-der-stand him, 
but sees that he is no or-di-na-ry man, and calls him a 
proph-et. Then Je-sus tells her who he is, and how he has 
come to save men, and how she too must be saved from 
her sins. When she goes back to her home, let us hope 
that she will be a bet-ter wom-an. Je-sus him-self has trav- 
eled a long way on foot, a-lone; and he is ver-y wea-ry. 
How he toiled to save men from their own fool-ish sins. 




THE WOM-AN OF SA-MA-RI-A. 



THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 



This is Je-sus preach-ing, and how glad the peo-ple seem 
to be to hear him. There does not seem to be man-y rich 
or great men there. They are most-ly poor, sim-ple peo- 
ple; for it was such that es-pe-cial-ly loved to hear Je-sus. 
Je-sus is on a moun-tain a-bove the Sea of Gal-i-lee. It 
is not like the great tem-ple with its gild-ed walls and mar- 
ble porch-es; but those who went to the tem-ple nev-er 
heard such words as these that Je-sus is say-ing. He stands 
with his hands stretched out o-ver the peo-ple, as though he 
were bless-ing them — and, in-deed, he is bless-ing ev-er-y 
good thing in their hearts. Je-sus taught that God does 
not care for any one man more than for an-oth-er, and he 
only bless-es the good that is in men's hearts: "Bless-ed 
are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Je-sus told 
the peo-ple that he who was wise and o-beyed his words 
would be like a wise man who built his house on the rock, 
and when the winds blew and the rains fell, the house stood 
firm. But he who did not lis-ten to his words would be 
like a fool-ish man who built his house on the sands, and 
the winds blew, and the rains fell, and the house was dashed 
to pieces. Let us be wise and o-bey the word of Je-sus. 







THE SER-MON ON THE MOUNT. 



RAISING THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN. 

Who is this wom-an, kneel-ing with her hands stretched 
out to-ward the young man whom Je-sus is rais-ing by the 
hand from a bed, and why are all the peo-ple look-ing on 
in such as-ton-ish-ment. One man is call-ing peo-ple in 
from the out-side to come and see, and he is point-ing at 
Je-sus, as though Je-sus had done some won-der-ful thing. 
The young man stand-ing be-side Je-sus is look-ing at the 
one in the bed, as though he had nev-er seen such a thing 
be-fore. And, in-deed, he nev-er has. The young man 
in the bed was dead. He was the on-ly son of a poor 
wid-ow, whose whole life was de-pend-ing on him. Je-sus 
saw her weep-ing as they were car-ry-ing her son a-way to 
bur-y him, and he said to her: "weep not;" then he touched 
the young man, and the young man a-rose in his bed, as 
though he had on-ly been a-sleep. And Je-sus took him 
by the hand and gave him to his moth-er, and oh how glad 
she is to see her boy a-live a-gain. What won-der-ful 
pow-er and what won-der-ful love Je-sus must have had to 
have done such things. We need nev-er fear death, if we 
trust in him. 






RAIS-ING THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NA-1N. 



THE SINFUL WOMAN FORGIVEN. 

Here is a strange pic-ture, what can it be? A wom-an 
kneel-ing be-fore Je-sus, and pour-ing some-thing out of a 
lit-tle jar on his feet, and wip-ing them with her hair. 
That seems to be a strange thing to do — so thought Si-mon, 
at whose ta-ble Je-sus is sit-ting. Si-mon knew that the 
wom-an was a ver-y wick-ed wom-an, and he said to him- 
self: "now, if Je-sus knows ev-er-y-thing, he must know that 
this wom-an is wick-ed, and he would not let her do this to 
him." But Je-sus knew what Si-mon was think-ing a-bout, 
and knew what was in the wom-an's heart. He knew that 
Si-mon thought that be-cause the wom-an was wick-ed she 
ought to be let a-lone, and he knew that the wom-an want- 
ed to have her sins for-giv-en. So he told the wom-an, that 
be-cause she had be-lieved in him, her sins should be for- 
giv-en; but she must sin no more. Then Je-sus taught 
Si-mon that God had sent him in-to the world for no 
oth-er pur-pose than to save sin-ners, and to for-give the 
sins of those who re-pent-ed of their sins and be-lieved in 
him. The wom-an is so grate-ful to Je-sus, that she is 
pour-ing a ver-y cost-ly per-fume on his feet. 



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THE SIN-FUL WOM-AN FOR-GIV-EN. 



THE TEMPEST ON THE SEA. 



It looks as though that boat were bound to go o-ver 
and be dashed to piec-es; so man-y peo-ple in it, the sail 
blown loose, the oars brok-en, the rud-der gone, and the 
wa-ter so high ! The shore is far off, and they will sure-ly 
be drowned. These men are the dis-ci-ples of Je-sus, and 
they were cross-ing the Sea of Gal-i-lee, when one of those 
sud-den storms that come on in-land seas over-took them, 
and threat-ened to de-stroy the boat and their lives. 
Mean-while, in the rear of the boat Je-sus lay a-sleep. 
Then his dis-ci-ples came to him and woke him up, call- 
ing out to him: "Mas-ter, car-est thou not that we per-ish?" 
Then Je-sus a-rose, and said: "Why are ye so fear-ful, Oh 
ye of lit-tle faith." Then he stood, as he is stand-ing 
there in the pic-ture, and held out his hands grand-ly o-ver 
the wa-ter, and said: "Peace, be still." And the waves fell, 
and the winds were still, and there was a great calm. 
The dis-ci-ples were fright-ened, and said: "What man- 
ner of man is this, that e-ven the winds and waves o-bey 
his voice?" But Je-sus was not a man, he was God. He 
made the world, the sea, the air, and at his com-mand 
they go and come. 



nil \ 3fc# Jim 




RAISING THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS. 

Here is Je-sus at an-oth-er death-bed. A-gain the peo- 
ple have gath-ered to mourn. The girl on the bed was 
dy-ing, and her fa-ther, who had heard of Je-sus, went to 
him, and begged him to come and heal her. But while 
he was talk-ing with Je-sus, an-oth-er mes-sen-ger came 
and said: "Why troub-le ye the Mas-ter, fa-ther? Your 
daugh-ter is dead." Je-sus said: "Fear not, and be-lieve." 
And he went with the fa-ther to his home. When they 
reached it, he found the house full of peo-ple weep-ing and 
cry-ing, and mak-ing a great noise and show of grief. 
"Why weep ye?" said Je-sus, "she is not dead, but sleep- 
eth." Then the peo-ple all laughed at him. Je-sus made 
them all leave the house, and then he went to the bed of 
the girl, and tak-ing her by the hand he said to her: "Dam- 
sel, arise!' And she arose, and Je-sus com-mand-ed that 
they should give her to eat. All the peo-ple were as-ton- 
ished; but Je-sus did not stop with them. He left the girl 
with her hap-py and be-liev-ing pa-rents, and went to make 
oth-ers be-lieve that he was the Son of God, so that, be-liev- 
ing, they might be saved. 




RAIS-ING THE DAUGH-TER OF JA-I-RUS. 



THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES 

So man-y peo-ple crowd-ing a-round Je-sus, and more 
a-way back as far as you can see, and all wait-ing for the 
bread and fish that he is giv-ing them to eat. You see the 
dis-ci-ples are car-ry-ing the loaves a-round and hand-ing 
them to the peo-ple. The peo-ple had fol-lowed Je-sus 
way out in-to the des-ert, and had tak-en noth-ing with 
them to eat. And they be-gan to be hun-gry. So the 
dis-ci-ples came to Je-sus and asked him to send them 
a-way. But Je-sus said: "Give ye them to eat." The dis- 
ci-ples were as-ton-ished at this, and asked him how they 
could do it. Je-sus asked them how much they had. The 
dis-ci-ples found a boy who had five loaves and a few small 
fish. Je-sus took them and prayed. Then he broke them 
in piec-es, and the more he broke the more the loaves grew, 
so that there was e-nough to feed five thou-sand peo-ple. 
E-ven then, af-ter all had eat-en all they want-ed, Je-sus 
or-dered them to col-lect what was left, and they found 
twelve bas-kets full. So that af-ter five thou-sand per-sons 
had eat-en, they had more left than they start-ed out with. 
It was the pow-er of God, and teach-es us to be-lieve in 
him. 



SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME. 

One day while Je-sus was preach-ing and teach-ing in 
the street, the peo-ple be-gan to bring lit-tle chil-dren un-to 
him, so that he might touch them and bless them, and say 
some-thing to them that would make them hap-py and 
good. But Je-sus' dis-ci-ples, when they saw it, thought 
that the peo-ple ought not to trou-ble Je-sus that way, and 
they be-gan to tell the peo-ple to keep their chil-dren a-way, 
and stopped the wom-en as they came to Je-sus with their 
lit-tle ones. Then Je-sus said: "Suf-fer lit-tle chil-dren to 
come un-to me, and for-bid them not, for of such is the 
King-dom of Heav-en." No won-der that the chil-dren 
all loved Je-sus as they did. In the pic-ture he has a lit-tle 
boy in his arms, while a lit-tle girl is bring-ing him some 
flow-ers. An-oth-er lit-tle fel-low that can hard-ly creep is 
try-ing to climb the step to come to Je-sus; and an-oth-er 
one is sit-ting close to him, held by his old-er sis-ter. Yes, 
and there are moth-ers com-ing with lit-tle ba-bies that are 
too small to walk or creep at all. Je-sus loved them all, 
and I think that he is very hap-py to see them all com-ing 
to him. 




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SUF-FER LIT-TLE CHIL-DREN TO COME UN-TO ME. 



LAZARUS AND DIVES. ■ 

Then Je-sus told an-oth-er sto-ry. Once there was a 
rich man, who had man-y serv-ants and lived in a great 
house. And a poor man, named Laz-a-rus, sat at his door 
and begged for the crumbs that fell from the rich man's 
table. And the dogs licked the sores on his bod-y, and 
were his on-ly com-pa-ny. The rich man de-spised him, 
and would give him noth-ing to eat or drink. By and by 
both the rich man and Laz-a-rus died. Laz-a-rus went to 
heav-en, but the rich man went to tor-ment. And be-ing 
in tor-ment, the rich man, whose name was Dives, looked 
up and saw Laz-a-rus in heaven, in A-bra-ham's bo-som. 
And Dives begged Laz-a-rus to give him a drop of wa-ter 
to cool his tongue with. But the an-gel said: ''Not so, 
for in thy life thou hadst thy good things, and Laz-a-rus 
evil. Now Laz-a-rus shall re-joice, and thou must suf-fer. 
Be-sides, there is a great gulf be-tween you two, and Laz- 
a-rus could not pass it if he would." How much bet-ter it 
would have been for Dives if he had not been so self-ish, 
as he is there in the pic-ture, sit-ting at his ta-ble, while his 
serv-ants wait upon him, and Laz-a-rus starves out-side. 



PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON. 

Here is a sto-ry, and no com-mon sto-ry eith-er. It is 
a sto-ry J e-sus told to teach how glad God was to re-ceive 
as his chil-dren those who sinned a-gainst him, if on-ly they 
would be sor-ry for their sins and come back to him. 
Once there was a man who had two sons. The young-er 
son took his share of his fath-er's goods and went off in-to 
a far coun-try, and he wast-ed it all in eat-ing and drink-ing. 
By and by there came a time when ev-er-y-thing in that 
coun-try dried up. There was no rain, and noth-ing grew, 
and the peo-ple had noth-ing to eat. The young-er son 
be-gan to starve. Then he thought of his fa-ther, and how 
his fa-ther' s serv-ants fared bet-ter than he did, and how 
wrong it had been for him to leave his fa-ther in the first 
place. Then he rose, and went to his fa-ther, and asked 
his fa-ther to for-give him for all that he had done. But 
his fa-ther saw him com-ing, and ran to meet him, and fell 
on his neck and kissed him, and made a great feast for him. 
Now this made the old-er broth-er an-gry, to think that his 
fa-ther would do so much for him when he had done so 
wrong. But his fa-ther said that he, too, ought to re-joice, 
be-cause now his broth-er was safe. 



CHRIST AT MARY AND MARTHA S. 

It is not oft-en that such a vis-it-or as Je-sus comes to 
an-y one's house, and Ma-ry and Mar-tha are ver-y anx-ious 
to en-ter-tain him well. Mar-tha is set-ting the ta-ble with 
the best things, and fine, ripe fruit, and Ma-ry is sit-ting at 
his feet, lis-ten-ing to all that he has to teach her a-bout 
heav-en, and how to live right. Mar-tha be-gan to scold 
Ma-ry, be-cause she did not come and help her with her 
work. But Je-sus ex-cused Ma-ry, and said that it was 
bet-ter to learn the way of life from him, than to serve fine 
food for him. It is bet-ter to try to learn from Je-sus and 
have him do good to us, than to do things that seem as 
though they were for him, and neg-lect to learn how to live 
right, and to un-der-stand and o-bey his com-mand-ments. 
What a beau-ti-ful home Ma-ry and Mar-tha have, with its 
wide win-dows, and beau-ti-ful view ov-er-look-ing the hills 
and sea of Gal-i-lee, a-round Beth-a-ny. No won-der Je- 
sus loved to go there and rest. There he was loved, and 
there he could feel that he was hon-ored and his pres-ence 
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I AM THE VINE. 

In this beau-ti-ful les-son from the vine, Christ teach-es 
us how near he is to us. He is the vine, we are the 
branch-es. As the branch can-not bear fruit of it-self, ex- 
cept it a-bide in the vine, no more can we ex-cept we a-bide 
in Christ. If we a-bide not in Christ, we are cast forth as 
a branch, as use-less. God wants us all to bear fruit, and 
if we will a-bide in Christ, as the branch a-bides in the 
vine, then we will bring forth a-bun-dant fruit. If we 
a-bide in Christ and his words a-bide in us, we can ask 
him to help us in all our work and he will. If we a-bide 
in Christ as the branch a-bides in the vine, God will send 
us joy and glad-ness. He will sup-ply us with the life of 
heav-en. We will nour-ish, and our lives will be a bless- 
ing to all who know us. Peo-ple will love us, be-cause 
they will see the mind and dis-po-si-tion of Christ in us. 
They will see that we are not self-ish, but that we are gen- 
e-rous, and like the great green branch that a-bides in the 
vine, that we are try-ing to bring forth fruit. 




THE LAST SUP-PER. 



JUDAS BETRAYS HIS LORD. 

And now, as Je-sus had said, he was to be be-trayed by 
one of his own dis-ci-ples. To be-tray a per-son is to be 
false to him when he has trust-ed you, and thinks that you 
are his friend. Now Ju-das pre-tend-ed to be a friend to 
Je-sus; but he knew that he could make some mon-ey if he 
helped the Jews to ar-rest Je-sus. So he a-greed to take 
them to where they could sur-prise Je-sus, if they would 
pay him thir-ty piec-es of sil-ver. This they a-greed to do, 
and Ju-das led them to where Je-sus was, and walk-ing up 
to Je-sus, he kissed him, so that they might know which 
one was Je-sus. Then Je-sus said: "Be-tray-est thou the 
son of man with a kiss?" In the pic-ture we see Ju-das 
aft-er all has been done, and the priests are read-y to pay 
him the mon-ey. But Ju-das feels so hor-ri-fied at what he 
has done, that lie re-fus-es the mon-ey, and run-ning out in- 
to the coun-try, he hangs him-self to a tree. Does he not 
look as though he had done some ter-ri-ble thing? 



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Je-sus knew that he was soon to die, and the thought 
of the suf-fer-ings he must en-dure, and of the ha-tred of the 
world, in spite of all the good that he had done, near-ly broke 
his heart with grief. In this great troub-le he took two of 
his dis-ci-ples with him, and went in-to the gar-den of Geth- 
sem-a-ne to pray to God for help and strength. Leav-ing 
the dis-ci-ples for a while, he said to them: "Sit ye here, 
while I go yon-der and pray." But when he re-turned, in- 
stead of find-ing them watch-ing, they were a-sleep. Je-sus 
a-woke them, and went a-gain to pray. But a-gain he 
found them sleep-ing. Three times this hap-pened. Then 
Je-sus saw that they could not stay a- wake, and he said: 
"The spir-it in-deed is will-ing, but the flesh is weak." 
So mer-ci-ful was Je-sus in his great suf-fer-ing to our 
weak-ness — to think that while he was to die for us we 
could not watch with him. And yet he for-gives and loves. 




GETH-SEM-A-NE. 



PETER DENIES CHRIST. 

J e-sus has been taken by those who hate him, and he 
is be-ing tried by the high priest in the pal-ace. You can 
just see J e-sus and the priest through the win-do ws a-bove. 
The man seat-ed be-low and in front, holding up his hand, 
is Pe-ter. He and the sol-diers, and oth-ers, are in a 
court-yard, that is an o-pen place in the hol-low square of 
the pal-ace. It is ver-y ear-ly in the morn-ing, and cold, 
and they are warm-ing them-selves a-bout the fire. The 
wom-an stand-ing a lit-tle back, and point-ing at Pe-ter, is 
tell-ing the sol-diers that Pe-ter is one of those men who 
were with J e-sus. Now that J e-sus is be-ing tried like a 
com-mon thief, and is ver-y like-ly to be put to death, Pe- 
ter is a-shamed to ad-mit that he had ev-er fol-lowed him. 
So he said to those that asked him if he had not been with 
Je-sus: "I tell you, I know him not." Was not that cow- 
ard-ly for Pe-ter to tell such a shame-ful lie? Je-sus had 
told him that he would do just that thing, three times, be- 
fore the cock crew. And when Pe-ter had done it three 
times, the cock crew. Then Pe-ter re-mem-bered what had 
been said to him by Je-sus. And he went out and wept 
bit-ter-ly. 



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Here is Je-sus, stand-ing with his hands bound and the 
crown of thorns on his head. Pi-late is pre-sent-ing him 
to the peo-ple, to see if they will not change their minds 
at the sight of his bonds and of the stripes that he has suf- 
fered. But no, they still de-mand that he shall be killed, 
and shout all to-gether with a great cry: "A-way with him! 
Cru-ci-fy him ! Cru-ci-fy him!" See the phar-i-sees, how 
they point at him and clench their fists. One man a-mong 
the crowd be-low is hold-ing the cross. The sol-diers look 
as if they cared noth-ing a-bout it, and were on-ly there to 
o-bey or-ders. Back in the pal-ace a lit-ttle ways you can 
just see Pi-late's wife, stand-ing and look-ing ver-y much 
fright-ened. She has had a dream a-bout Je-sus, and said 
to her hus-band: "Have noth-ing to do with that just 
man." Pi-late him-self sees that Je-sus is a good man, 
yet he dares not pro-tect him from the ha-tred of the Jews, 
al-though he tries to get a-way from hav-ing an-y-thing to 
do with Je-sus' death. So he is leav-ing it all to the crowd 
to do. That is just the thing that a judge should not do. 
Pi-late al-lowed Je-sus to be cru-ci-fied, and gave him o-ver 
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EC-CE HO-MO "BE-HOLD THE MAN.' 



CHRIST CROWNED WITH THORNS. 

See these rough men mak-ing sport of Je-sus. They 
are mak-ing a mock king of him, be-cause he said: "I am 
the king of the Jews." So they have made a crown of 
thorns, and are put-ting it on his head. And put-ting an 
old stick, for a scep-tre, in-to his bound hands, and are 
bow-ing down to him, and say-ing cru-el and in-sult-ing 
things to him. The dis-ci-ples of Je-sus look hor-ri-fied, 
and the Jews stand-ing back, and look-ing in through the 
win-dow, are dis-pleased too. For, al-though they hate Je- 
sus, they know that the sol-diers are mak-ing fun of them, 
by call-ing Je-sus their king. Je-sus a-lone sits pa-tient-ly, 
with-out a word or a look of com-plaint. He is prov-ing 
him-self, by such con-duct, the great king of all kings ; the 
king of love, and truth, and right-eous-ness. He is show- 
ing that he is worth-y to be the Sav-iour of the world, and 
in the day when he will come in glo-ry, these men, and all 
oth-ers, will know who it is that they treat so shame-ful-ly. 
They are ver-y bold now, but in the day of his glo-ry they 
will not be so brave. Their brav-er-y now is mean-ness 
and cow-ard-ice — to in-sult a man whose hands are bound, 
and who is a-bout to die — how mean ! 




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It is judged that Je-sus shall be cru-ci-fied. To be 
cru-ci-fied is to be nailed to a cross and left to die. Pi- 
late gave him o-ver to the Jews and sol-diers. So they tie 
a rope a-round his waist, and put the heav-y cross on his 
back, and beat-ing him with clubs and knot-ted ropes, they 
lead him to Cal-va-ry. Cal-va-ry means: "the place of 
skulls." And it was called that name, for there was where 
the peo-ple killed those whom the law judged to be wor-thy 
£>f death. To Cal-va-ry then they led Je-sus, — through the 
-streets of Je-ru-sa-lem, where ev-er-y-one can look at him, 
laugh at him, and strike him. But not all hate him. One 
good man is walk-ing be-hind him, help-ing him to car-ry 
his cross. Some wom-an is kneel-ing be-fore him, prais-ing 
him. Je-sus does not seem to no-tice the blows that the 
man in front is giv-ing him, nor the shouts and a-buse of 
the crowds. He has his face turned to- ward those that 
love him, in or-der that he might give them his last looks, 
and the com-fort of his ten-der glance. The Jews seem to 
think they have tri-umphed now; but God's time will come 
by and by. 



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THE CRUCIFIXION. 



And now Je-sus is cru-ci-fied. They have led him to 
the top of the hill. They have raised the cross and lift-ed 
him on-to it. They have driv-en the cru-el nails through 
the hands and feet, and left him there be-neath the blaz-ing 
sun to die. The heav-ens grew dark, and the great veil 
of the tem-ple was rent. In the pic-ture you see the tem- 
ple in the dis-tance, with the dark cloud over it. Well 
might it grow dark, and the veil of the tem-ple be rent, for 
this was the great-est crime that men had ev-er done, and 
it was done in the name of the re-lig-ion of that tem-ple, 
and by its priests. The sol-dier stand-ing by the cross is 
mak-ing sport of the pain and sor-row of Je-sus. The 
wom-en who be-lieved on him are weep-ing at his feet. 
Is it not a sad, sad sight? I think that the wom-an who 
is al-most faint-ing, whom the two are hold-ing up, must 
be Je-sus' mother. Oh, to think that this cru-ci-fied man, 
whom ev-er-y-one seemed to hate, was the child of whom 
the an-gel had told her that he should be the joy of the 
world, the sa-viour of man-kind. The crown of thorns is 
still on his head, and above him is writ-ten: "Je-sus of 
Naz-a-reth, the King of the Jews." 




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THE CRU-CI-FIX-ION. 



CARRYING TO THE TOMB. 

Six hours was Je-sus suf-fer-ing on the cross, when 
death came to end his pain. Then a sol-dier of the guard 
took a spear and thrust its point deep in-to Je-sus' side, to 
see wheth-er or not he was tru-ly dead. And when they 
found that he was dead, they took him down from the cross, 
and gave his bod-y to his friends to care for. Now, a-mong 
those who be-lieved on Je-sus, and were true to him, was 
Jo-seph, of Ar-i-ma-the-a, who was rich. This man owned 
a new tomb, in which no bodv had ever been laid. In 
that land they dig caves in the rock-y sides of steep hills, 
and plac-ing dead bod-ies in there, they roll great stones 
up to the o-pen-ing, and thus close the grave. It was in 
such a place that Je-sus, our Lord, was bu-ried. In the 
pic-ture, they are just car-ry-ing him in-to the cave. This 
grave has a reg-u-lar-ly built door- way. Man-y of them 
did not; but Jo-seph was a rich man, and his bu-ry-ing 
place was bet-ter than most. Let us re-joice that there 
re-mained on earth some who were still true to Je-sus, and 
cared for his bod-y ten-der-ly. And let us thank God al- 
ways for ev-er-y true friend to our Je-sus. 



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THE ENTOMBMENT. 



And now we see them, in this pic-ture, in-side the 
tomb, ten-der-ly lay-ing the bod-y a-way. Is not the tomb 
larg-er than you ex-pect-ed to see? These were not like 
our graves at all. They were bu-ry-ing places for the 
whole fam-i-ly, and some-times men would be bu-ried in 
the same grave with their fa-thers and grand-fa-thers. 
And they thought this a great hon-or. But the tomb in 
which Je-sus was bu-ried was new, and they laid him a-way 
a-lone, wrapped in fine lin-en, and sur-round-ed with spi-ces 
and myrrh. Aft-er they have done this they will go out 
and roll a huge stone up to the grave, so as to en-tire-ly 
cov-er the o-pen-ing. Then the gov-ern-or's of-fic-ers will 
place a great seal on the door, so that who-so-ev-er should 
o-pen the tomb would be pun-ished with death. And they 
will place a guard of sol-diers a-bout it, so that the friends 
of Je-sus may not come and take the bod-y a-way. All 
this was done, be-cause the Jews were a-fraid that Je-sus 
would rise a-gain from the grave, and they want-ed to pre- 
vent the bar-est pos-si-bil-i-ty of such a thing. They could 
not see how the stone could be rolled a-way, the seal brok-en, 
the guard passed by, and Je-sus walk a-gain in the light of 
day, for they did not know the pow-er of God, nor under- 
stand that Je-sus was the Son of God. 




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CHRIST APPEARS TO MARY. 



Is not this Je-sus a-gain? Yes, it is Je-sus, and he has 
ris-en from the grave. Three days he lay in the tomb, 
while his dis-ci-ples were scat-tered and hope-less, and the 
wom-en that fol-lowed him wept. Then an-gels came 
from heav-en, sent by God, and walked past the guard of 
sol-diers, who dared not stop them, nor could have done it 
had they dared, and rolled the great stone a- way. And 
Je-sus breathed a-gain. They laid the grave-clothes from 
him, in or-der, in the tomb, and Je-sus walked out a-live as 
be-fore, on-ly that the nail-prints were in his hands and 
feet, and the spear-wound in his side. The an-gels staid 
with-in the grave, and sat where the bod-y of Je-sus had 
been. Now, Ma-ry was one of those wom-en who went 
dai-ly to the grave to weep. And ear-ly on this third day 
she was there ; but found the grave emp-tied, and the an- 
gels with-in. One of the an-gels said to her: "Wom-an, 
why weep-est thou ? He is not here, but ris-en." Then 
she turned a-round, a-mazed, and Je-sus him-self stood at 
her side. Oh, what hap-pi-ness this was for Ma-ry! She 
fell at his feet and wept for joy, and would have kissed his 
feet, but Je-sus said to her: "Touch me not." So sim- 
ply and yet so grand-ly did Je-sus rise from the dead. 




CHRIST AP-PEARS TO MARY. 



THE WALK TO EMMAUS. 



Aft-er the death of Je-sus, his dis-ci-ples were ver-y, 
ver-y sad, and knew not what to do. They had giv-en up 
all for him, and now he was cru-ci-fied and slain. They 
could not yet be-lieve the won-der-ful sto-ry of his be-ing 
a-llve a-gain, and knew not what to make of it all. One 
day two of them were walk-ing to Em-ma-us, and when 
they were quite near the vil-lage, a strang-er ov-er-took 
them, and asked them what they were talk-ing a-bout so 
sad-ly. They told the man of the things that had hap- 
pened to Je-sus, and how their hopes had failed, and of 
the sto-ry that he had come to life a-gain, which they could 
scarce-ly be-lieve. The strang-er lis-tened to it all, and 
then be-gan to talk, tell-ing them all a-bout the Bi-ble, and 
its proph-e-cies ; how all these things had been fore-told of 
Je-sus, and how they should rath-er re-joice than be sad 
o-ver them, for they proved that Je-sus was the Christ, the 
Son of God. While the strang-er talked, the two dis-ci- 
ples felt their hearts grow light a-gain, and their hopes re- 
turn. Glad-ly they asked the man to stop with them o-ver 
the night at Em-ma-us. He con-sent-ed to do so, and they 
were seat-ed in a lit-tle room eat-ing their sup-per, when the 
strang-er took bread, and, when he had giv-en thanks, broke 
it and gave to them. Then their eyes were o-pened to know 
him. It was Je-sus. In the pic-ture we see them on the 
way talk-ing to-geth-er. 




ON THE ROAD TO EM-MA-US. 



THE ASCENSION. 



Aft-er this Je-sus saw his dis-ci-ples man-y times, aft-er 
that he had ris-en from the dead, and be-fore he left the 
earth, and he ex-plained to them how they were to car-ry 
on God's work of brinor-ing- all men to be-lieve on him. 
One day they were gath-ered to-geth-er out in a lone-ly 
place, and Je-sus was talk-ing to them. Sud-den-ly he was 
lift-ed in-to the air, and a cloud took him up out of their 
sight. And while they were gaz-ing at the sky in won-der 
and fear, two an-gels, clothed in white, came and stood be- 
side them, and told them that Je-sus was to come to earth 
a-gain, just as they now saw him leav-ing it. Then the 
dis-ci-ples a-rose and went to Je-ru-sa-lem. This was the 
end of the life of Je-sus on earth. He had fin-ished the 
work that God had giv-en him to do. He had suf-fered 
and died for us. He had laid a-side his glo-ry, to grow 
from a babe in a hum-ble home to a man, and to go a-bout 
a-mong the poor and need-y. Now he was as-cend-ed in-to 
heav-en, to sit on the right hand of God, in all the glo-ry 
which he had had be-fore he come to earth; yes, be-fore the 
world was. From there he will came to judge all men, the 
liv-ing and the dead. 




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THE AS-CEN-SION. 



JESUS IN THE FAMILY. 

This is a pic-ture of the kind call-ed em-blem-at-ic. 
That is, one that teach-es a les-son more eas-i-ly than words 
do. The group of chil-dren and par-ents are sup-po-sed 
to be read-ing the sto-ry giv-en in the New Test-a-ment of 
the won-der-ful life of Christ. He is ev-ery- where, full of 
sym-pa-thy and love, and He is pic-tured as be-ing per- 
son-al-ly here with this fam-i-ly, so that we may not for-get 
that it is true al-ways that Christ is with us. 

These child-ren seem to lis-ten and won-der as their 
fath-er tells them how Christ, the Son of God, was once, 
like them-selves, a lit-tle child. That was his hu-man part, 
in which he was like us, ex-cept that he nev-er sin-ned. 

The pic-ture al-so re-minds us of some of the words of 
Je-sus. He said, "when-ev-er e-ven two or three are to- 
geth-er in my name, there am I in the midst of them." 
The words mean that he is es-pe-ci-al-ly there, that he 
loves the com-pa-ny of those who fol-low Him, and that 
He is there to bless them. 

Em-blem-at-ic pic-tures have been in use a-mong men 
in all a-ges, to re-mind them to take the good and shun the 
bad, and to put the thought in their minds quick-ly. The 
cross it-self, on which Christ died, is ev-ery-where an em- 
blem, a pic-ture, of the Christ-ian faith. But the best pic- 
ture of all is one that re-minds us that the Div-ine Mas-ter 
is al-ways near us, lis-ten-ing in love to all our sor-rows, 
read-y to help us in all our troub-les, smil-ing up-on us 
when-ev-er we think of Him. 




JE-SUS IN THE FAM-I-LY. 



st. peter's vision of the animals. 

Pe-ter was a Jew, and the Jews had a law a-bout cer- 
tain an-i-mals be-ing "un-clean," which meant that they 
should not be eat-en. But Pe-ter be-came a fol-low-er of 
Christ, a Christ-ian; and when he went to strange, new pla- 
ces to preach to the peo-ple who had nev-er heard of Je-sus, 
the Sav-ior of all men, be-fore, he was oft-en hun-gry be- 
cause he had been all his life taught not to eat of the flesh 
of the an-i-mals which they u-sed for food. 

Ear-ly one morn-ing he was ver-y hung-ry. All the 
hou-ses of the coun-try where he trav-el-ed and preach-ed 
had, and still have, flat roofs. He pray-ed oft-en, as all 
Christ-ians do, and to this flat roof, ret-i-red and si-lent, he 
went in the cool ear-ly morn-ing to ask God how he should 
act, and what he might eat, in the coun-tries where the old 
law of the Jews a-bout "un-clean" an-i-mals was un-known. 

And then oc-cur-red the strange and beau-ti-ful thing 
which is the sub-ject of the pic-ture. He saw a "vis-ion." 
At the mo-ment it was re-al to him, and was so plain that it 
taught him a les-son he was nev-er to for-get. He saw a 
great flat sheet let down be-fore him, and on this sheet were 
all kinds of an-i-mals. For fear he should not un-der-stand, 
this scene was ta-ken up and let down be-fore him three 
times. He was told to kill and eat, and when, still doubt- 
ing, he re-fused be-cause he had nev-er eat-en any-thing 
"com-mon or un-clean," the Voice spoke the words that 
since then Christ-ians have nev-er for-got-ten: "What God 
hath clean-sed, that call not thou com-mon." 



ST. PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS. 

This pic-ture gives us the scene of a great ser-mon by 
per-haps the great-est preach-er who has ev-er liv-ed. Ath- 
ens, in Greece, was at the time the cen-ter of the learn-ing 
and prog-ress of the world. Paul was al-so a schol-ar and 
a law-yer be-fore he be-came a Christ-ian and a mis-sion-ary. 
These peo-ple did not know him. He oft-en work-ed for his 
liv-ing when he was not preach-ing, and seem-ed to them a 
wand-er-ing poor man whom they call-ed a "bab-bler." 

But at last he got some of them to lis-ten to him, and 
they ask-ed him to come to the place they call-ed the Ar-e- 
o-pa-gus, so that out of mere cu-ri-os-ity they might hear more 
a-bout the new reli-gi-on. The scene is eas-i-ly im-ag-i-ned. 
No com-mon im-pos-ter could have gone eas-i-ly through the 
test they had ar-ran-ged for Paul. Poor-ly clad, per-haps 
bare-foot-ed, he stood up-on the mar-ble steps, his face 
beard-ed and sun-burn-ed in his wan-der-ings, a stran-ger 
with-out friends. The el-e-gant and per-fu-med Greeks sat 
smil-ing be-low him, wait-ing to be am-u-sed. 

But the great mis-sion-a-ry was strong in his Mas-ter 
and his Faith, and his ve-ry first words were those of bold 
re-proof. He told them he had seen in Ath-ens an al-tar "to 
the un-known God." It was what we now call his text, and 
he used it so that they were ob-li-ged to lis-ten. No skill-ful 
law-yer could do more to con-vince. His words aregiv-en 
as he said them. "Whom there-fore ye ig-no-rant-ly wor- 
ship, Him de-clare I un-to you." Paul's ser-mon at Ath- 
ens seems strong and fresh aft-er al-most two thous-and 
years. 



COME UNTO ME. 

This sto-ry, in pic-tures, of the life of Je-sus, ends with a 
pic-ture of Je-sus him-self, stand-ing with his hands held 
out to us, and call-ing us to come to him. Does he not 
look kind, and ten-der, and lov-ing? How good his face is, 
and the wound-prints of the nails are in his hands and feet, 
to show how he has suf-fered and died for us. Though 
all the glo-ry of heav-en and earth is his, he comes to us in 
sim-ple dress, and in the form of a man, beau-ti-ful only for 
his good-ness and love. We should all learn to love him 
and o-bey his voice, for he is our Sav-iour, our King, our 
God. With-out him we should all per-ish, and with him 
we have ev-er-y good gift. Je-sus was ver-y fond of chil- 
dren. He loved them, and would not let an-y one keep 
them a-way from him ; and he asks ev-er-y child to be-lieve 
in him and love him, as I know ev-er-y child who sees the 
beau-ti-ful pic-tures, and learns who Je-sus was, and how he 
lived and died, will love him, and be-lieve in his love for us. 
And those that will list-en, can hear him call-ing them to 
come un-to him, as he is call-ing in the pic-ture we have 
here. 




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